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By the Light of My Father's Smile is Alice Walker's first novel in six years--a sensational, unique, and important guide by "one of many greatest American writers of today" (The Washington Post).A household in the Usa would go to the distant Sierras in Mexico--the author-to-be, Susannah; her cousin, Magdalena; her father and mother.  And there, amid a vulnerable group of mixed-race Blues and Indians named the Mundo, they start an experience that'll transform them significantly more than they might actually dream.  Moving back and forth over time, and among memorable people and their reports, Walker crosses traditional edges of sorts as She examines in this novel the ways a lady's refused libido results in the increasing loss of the much required and valued unique self; and she regains that self, even while her family's prior of love and lies is changed how. By the Light of My Father's Smile gifts, as Alice Walker puts it, "a celebration of sexuality, its complete effectiveness within the opening of 1's adult spirituality, and the father's part in guaranteeing pleasure or sadness in this industry for his feminine children."  It examines the wealth and coherence of alternate tradition, connection with sexuality as being a celebration of life, of rely upon Character and the Character, even while it claims the perception, as Walker says, "that it's the victorious heart, not the vanquished heart, that forgives.  And that love is both classic and beyond time."From the Hardcover edition.