Tashi, an African woman married to an African-American missionary, struggles to deal with the psychological effects of the brutal circumcision she underwent in adolescence, which causes her son brain damage in birth and results in her facing a murder charge.
year: 1993, 1992, 1997
call number/section: 1000
subjects: african american women, fiction, women immigrants, female circumcision, abused women, africa, fiction, mental illness
Editions
Walker, Alice
Pocket Books (1993)
Tashi, an African woman married to an African-American missionary, struggles to deal with the psychological effects of the brutal circumcision she underwent in adolescence, which causes her son brain damage in birth and results in her facing a murder charge.
Schools: 1
Walker, Alice
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1992)
Story of Tashi, a tribal African woman who lives much of her adult life in North America struggling to recognize her own reality.
Schools: 2
Walker, Alice
Washington Square Press (1997)
Tashi, an African woman married to an African-American missionary, struggles to deal with the psychological effects of the brutal circumcision she underwent in adolescence, which causes her son brain damage in birth and results in her facing a murder charge.
Schools: 0