The Healing - Gayl Jones
Category: General Fiction
Narrator: Bahni Turpin
Tags: General Fiction, Novel, Adults
Gayl Joness first novel, Corregidora, won her recognition as a writer whose work was gripping, subtle, and sure. It was praised, along with her second novel, Evas Man, by writers and critics from all over the nation: John Updike, Maya Angelou, John Edgar Wideman, and James Baldwin, to name a few. The publication of The Healing, her first novel in more than 20 years, is a literary event., 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 stars manager, and before that a beautician. Shes had a fling with her rock stars ex-husband and an Afro-German horse dealer; along the way shes 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., The Healing is a lyrical and at time
