@article{427919, recid = {427919}, author = {Walker, Alice,}, title = {By the light of my father's smile : a novel /}, publisher = {Random House,}, address = {New York :}, pages = {222 p. ;}, year = {1998}, abstract = {A novel on two black sisters whose father forbids teen sex and when one engages in it gives her a hiding. The novel explores "the ways in which a woman's denied sexuality leads to the loss of the much-prized and necessary original self." By the author of The Color Purple.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/427919}, }