The Healing

Name: The Healing
Author: Gayl Jones

by Gayl Jones

Woman finds spiritual healing through unconventional healer while confronting trauma and identity

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Gayl Jones

Gayl Jones is a Kentucky-born African American novelist whose Corregidora and Eva's Man are harrowing, formally inventive explorations of sexual trauma and Black women's history. Her work was championed by Toni Morrison.

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