Possessing the Secret of Joy
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ISBN: 0151731527 / Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, June 1992
A provocative novel about an African tribal woman’s battle with madness after the trauma of a childhood genital mutilation.
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Severely traumatized after suffering genital mutilation in her native Africa, Tashi Johnson spends much of her adult life in North America seeking help through psychoanalysis, desperate to regain the ability to feel. 150,000 first printing. $150,000 ad/promo.
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