{"product_id":"book-ck9s","title":"The Healing","description":"\u003cb\u003eNational Book Award finalist follows a black faith healer whose shrewd observations about human nature are told with the rich lyricism of the oral storytelling tradition.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eCorregidora\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Healing\u003c\/i\u003e follows Harlan Jane Eagleton as she travels to small towns, converting skeptics, restoring minds, and healing bodies. But before she found her calling, Harlan had been a minor rock star’s manager and, before that, a beautician. Harlan retraces her story to the beginning, when she once had a fling with the rock star’s ex-husband and found herself infatuated with an Afro-German horse dealer. Along the way she’s somehow lost her own husband, a medical anthropologist now traveling with a medicine woman across eastern Africa. Harlan draws us deeper into her world and the mystery at the heart of her tale: the story of her first healing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Healing\u003c\/i\u003e is a lyrical and at times humorous exploration of the struggle to let go of pain, anger, and even love. Slipping seamlessly back through Harlan’s memories in a language rich with the textured cadences of unfiltered dialogue, Gayl Jones weaves her story to its dramatic—and unexpected—beginning.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49331787563312,"sku":"BDck9s","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/182610-ck9s-Square.jpg?v=1733828456","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-ck9s","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}