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Getting Mother's Body
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Title Description Within the tradition of the great African-American women novelists, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks blazes her own trail. Parks tells the story of Billy Beede, a woman who has been impregnated by a bigamist coffin salesman, who sets out on a quest with her relatives to dig up her mother's body in La Junta, Arizona. Her mother's last wish was that she be buried with all her best jewelry, and Billy wants to rob the grave to help pay for future expenses. On the way, she and her relatives are plagued by the racist prejudices of the 1960s South - where a couple of the Beedes spend the night in jail though they have committed no offense. This surreal narrative makes for an original and unsettling book. Recommendations Customers who ordered this book also ordered: 1. Op-Center #11: Call to Treason by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik; read by Michael Kramer. (CD or Tape) 2. Shoot the Moon by Billie Letts; read by Kathe Mazur. (CD or Tape) 3. Villages by John Updike; read by Edward Herrmann. (CD or Tape) Customer Reviews Have you listened to this audiobook? Please submit your ratings and review it! |
