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Stigmata - Softcover

Perry, Phyllis Alesia

 
9780385496353: Stigmata
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0385496354 ISBN 13: 9780385496353
Verlag: Anchor Books, 1999

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Lizzie Du Bose inherits more then a quilt from her grandmother, as she discovers when she begins to have strange dreams of her grandmother and her great-great-great grandmother, Ayo, a slave. Reprint.

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Phyllis Alesia Perry is a Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper editor who lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

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nd imaginative debut novel about the legacy of slavery, and the psychological mystery surrounding a troubled young woman.

When Lizzie Du Bose inherits a handmade quilt willed to her by a maternal grandmother she has never met, her life is forever changed. The figures sewn into the quilt tell the stories of Lizzie's grandmother Grace, and Grace's grandmother Ayo, who was abducted from Africa as a girl and sent as a slave to America. As Lizzie learns, the quilt seems to hold the key to a past that haunts her, at first through terrifyngly lifellike dreams, and finally through visions that seem to take Lizzie back in time, fusing her own life with the lives of Grace and Ayo.

One night, Lizzie awakens to find the quilt soaked in blood, and discovers horrible wounds on her wrists and back. Wracked with pain, Lizzie has no memory of having harmed herself, but she believes Ayo's manacle scars have appeared on her own body--as real an inheritence as Grace's quilt. Now Lizzie must deci

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Verlag
Anchor Books
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0385496354
ISBN 13 
9780385496353
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
235
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