Possessing the Secret of Joy: A Novel by New Press, The

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New Press, The claimed The stunning New York Times bestseller, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple, reissued in a handsome new edition.From the author the New York Times Book Review calls ´a lavishly gifted writer,´ this is the searing story of Tashi, a tribal African woman first glimpsed in The Color Purple whose fateful decision to submit to the tsunga´s knife and be genitally mutilated leads to a trauma that informs her life and fatefully alters her existence.Possessing the Secret of Joy, out of print for a number of years, was the first novel to deal with this controversial topic and managed to do so in a manner that Cosmopolitan called ´masterful, honorable, and unforgettable storytelling.´ The New Press is proud to bring the book back into print with a new preface by the author addressing the book´s initial reception and the changed attitudes toward female genital mutilation that have come about in part because of this book.

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