Faith and the Good Thing

Name: Faith and the Good Thing
Author: Charles Johnson

by Charles Johnson

A debut novel exploring good and evil through the life of a Southern black woman

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Charles Johnson

American novelist and philosopher whose Middle Passage won the National Book Award. His work combines African American experience with Buddhist philosophy and formal experimentation. He is one of the most intellectually ambitious writers in American fiction.

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