Getting Mother's Body
a novel
by Suzan-Lori Parks, Suzan-Lori Parks · 2003
Popularity 5
Learning that a company plans to dig up the area where her mother is buried, supposedly with a cache of jewels, Billy Beede, poor and pregnant, heads for Arizona to rescue her mother's body and search for the jewels that could bring her a new life.
African American familiesPoor familiesTreasure troveFictionTreasure trovesTreasure-troveHistorical fictionDomestic fictionFiction, historical, generalTexas, fictionAfrican americans, fictionTreasure-troves