{"product_id":"the-healing-bluestreak-9780807063255","title":"The Healing (Bluestreak)","description":"\u003cp\u003eGayl Joness special gift is to shape experience and make it seem unshaped. -John Alfred Avant  The New Republic  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 over twenty 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 times humorous exploration of the struggle to let go of pain  anger  and even love. Slipping seamlessly back through Harlans memories in a language rich with the textured cadences of the black Southerner  Gayl Jones weaves her story to its dramatic-and unexpected-beginning.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67924600324149,"sku":"ByrdShop_0807063258","price":68.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780807063255.jpg?v=1794138023","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-healing-bluestreak-9780807063255","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}