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The beautiful New York Times bestseller, in the Pulitzer prize winning author of The Color Purple, reissued in a fine new edition.From the author the New York Times Book Review calls "a lavishly gifted writer," this may be the agonizing story of Tashi, a tribal African-American lady first glimpsed in The Color Purple whose fateful choice to publish to the tsungais blade and be genitally mutilated results in a stress that shows her existence and fatefully changes her existence.Possessing the Key of Happiness, out-of-print for numerous years, was the first novel to cope with this controversial subject and Were able to achieve this in a fashion that Multicultural named "memorable storytelling, and outstanding, ethical." The New Press is happy to create the book back to print with a new preface from the author handling the book's original party and the transformed attitudes toward female genital mutilation which have happen simply as a result of this book.