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050 _aPS3573.A425
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100 1 _aAlice Walker
245 1 _aPossessing the Secret of Joy
260 _bWashington Square Press
300 _a304 pages
520 _aPrompted by misguided loyalty to the customs of her people, Tashi Johnson, a tribal African woman living in North America, endures a severely traumatizing tribal initiation rite of passage, an experience that affects her sense of identity. Reprint.
650 _aCulture/Customs; Realistic Fiction
999 _c9191
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