Before Women Had Wings

Name: Before Women Had Wings
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ISBN: 9780449911440

ISBN-10: 0449911446

ISBN-13: 9780449911440

Edition: N/A

Authors: Connie May Fowler

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My name is Avocet Abigail Jackson. But because Mama couldn't find anyone who thought Avocet was a fine name for a child, she called me Bird. Which is okay by me. She named both her children after birds, her logic being that if we were named for something with wings then maybe we'd be able to fly above the shit in our lives. . . . So says Bird Jackson, the mesmerizing narrator of Connie May Fowler's vivid and brilliantly written, Before Women Had Wings. Starstruck by a dime-store picture of Jesus, Bird fancies herself "His girlfriend" and embarks upon a spiritual quest for salvation, even as the chaos of her home life plunges her into a stony…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/22/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Connie May Fowler is an essayist and screenwriter as well as the author of four novels: Sugar Cage, River of Hidden Dreams, Before Women Had Wings, a paperback bestseller in the USA which was made into a successful film by Oprah Winfrey and was winner of the 1996 Southern Book Critics Circle Award, and Remembering Blue.