Getting mother's body

Parks, Suzan-Lori. (Author). Books on Tape, Inc. (Added Author).

Summary: Within the tradition of the great African-American women novelists, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks blazes her own trail. Parks tells the story of Billy Beede, a woman who has been impregnated by a bigamist coffin salesman, who sets out on a quest with her relatives to dig up her mother's body in La Junta, Arizona. Her mother's last wish was that she be buried with all her best jewelry, and Billy wants to rob the grave to help pay for future expenses. On the way, she and her relatives are plagued by the racist prejudices of the 1960s South -- where a couple of the Beedes spend the night in jail though they have committed no offense. This surreal narrative makes for an original and unsettling book.

Record details

ISBN: 9781415953136 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
ISBN: 1415953139 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
Physical Description: electronic
electronic resource
remote
Publisher: New York : Books on Tape, [2008]

Content descriptions

General Note:	Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 7:30:22.
Participant or Performer Note:	Read by the author.
System Details Note:	Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 107872 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web.