{"product_id":"2940169441598","title":"The Healing","description":"\u003cp\u003eGayl Jones's first novel, \u003ci\u003eCorregidora\u003c\/i\u003e, won her recognition as a writer whose work was gripping, subtle, and sure. It was praised, along with her second novel, \u003ci\u003eEva's Man\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Healing\u003c\/i\u003e, her first novel in over twenty years, is a literary event.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarlan 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 star's manager, and before that a beautician. She's had a fling with her rock star's ex-husband and an Afro-German horse dealer; along the way she's 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 taleamp;mdash;the story of her first healing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Healing\u003c\/i\u003e is a lyrical and at times humorous exploration of the struggle to let go of pain, anger, and even love. Slipping seamlessly back through Harlan's memories in a language rich with the textured cadences of the black Southerner, Gayl Jones weaves her story to its dramaticamp;mdash;and unexpectedamp;mdash;beginning.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47101886365936,"sku":"2940169441598","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169441598_p0.jpg?v=1763682753","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169441598","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}