The Healing

By Gayl Jones

Subjects: Man-woman relationships, fiction, Afro-American women healers, African Americans, African americans, fiction, Guérisseuses noires américaines, Psychological fiction, African American women, Large type books, Family, Romans, nouvelles, Women healers, faith healing, Guérisseuses, Fiction, Man-woman relationships, African American women healers, Fiction, psychological, Relations entre hommes et femmes

Description: Harlan Jane Eagleton is a faith healer, traveling by bus to small towns, converting skeptics, restoring minds and bodies. But before that she was a minor rock star's manager, and before that a beautician. She's had a fling with her rock star's ex-husband and an Afro-German horse dealer; along the way she's somehow lost her own husband, a medical anthropologist now traveling with a medicine woman in Africa. Harlan tells her story from the end backwards, drawing us constantly deeper into her world and the mystery at the heart of her tale-the story of her first healing.