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Marked by fire / Joyce Carol Thomas.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: An Avon/Flare bookPublication details: New York, N.Y. : Avon Books, 1982.Description: 172 p. ; 18 cmISBN:
  • 038079327X (pbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • [Fic] 19
LOC classification:
  • PZ7.T36696 Mar
Awards:
  • American Book Award, 1983
Summary: Abyssinia Jackson, born in an Oklahoma cotton field in the wake of a tornado, is the pride and joy of her family, church, and community until a series of natural disasters and personal attacks threaten to break her spirit, but Mother Barker and her lessons in folk medicine help Abby survive.
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Abyssinia Jackson, born in an Oklahoma cotton field in the wake of a tornado, is the pride and joy of her family, church, and community until a series of natural disasters and personal attacks threaten to break her spirit, but Mother Barker and her lessons in folk medicine help Abby survive.

American Book Award, 1983