Praisesong For The Widow

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Imprint: Plume (Apr 16, 1984)
Fiction, Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Penguin Random House
ISBN: 9780452267114

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With all her children at university and her husband recently dead, Avey Johnson takes an annual cruise to the Caribbean. But this cruise is different, and strips her of all her pretensions. The author has written "Brown Girl, Brownstones".

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