000			02576cam a2200421Mc 4500
001			ocn880762037
003			OCoLC
005			20250325080304.0
008			140531s1997 nyu 000 0 eng d
010			_a 97016504
020			_a034539514X
020			_a9780345395146
035			_a(OCoLC)880762037
040			_aNLJDA _beng _cNLJDA _dOCLCQ _dVTU _dOCLCO _dOCLCF _dSPP _dPAU _dWKP _dOCLCO
049			_aMAIN
082			_aF Jac
100			_aJackson-Opoku, Sandra
245			_aThe river where blood is born _cSandra Kackson-Opoku
260			_aNew York _bBallantine Books _c1997
300			_a401 pages _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
505			_aPrologue -- Part I: Headwaters -- Part II: Estuary -- Part III: Backwater -- Part IV: Tributaries -- Part V: Confluence -- Part VI: Watershed -- Epilogue.
520			_aThis astonishing novel takes us on a journey along the river of one family's history, carving a course across two centuries and three continents, from ancient Africa into today's America. Here, through the lives of Mother Africa's many daughters, we come to understand the real meaning of roots: the captive Proud Mary, who has been savagely punished for refusing to relinquish her child to slavery; Earlene, who witnesses her father's murder at the hands of the Ku Klux Klan; Big Momma, a modern-day matriarch who can make a woman of a girl; proud and sassy Cinnamon Brown, whose wild abandon hides a bitter loss; and smart, ambitious Alma, who is torn between the love of a man and the song of her soul. In The River Where Blood Is Born, the seen and unseen worlds are seamlessly joined--the spirit realms where the great river goddess and ancestor mothers watch over the lives of their descendants, both the living and those not yet born. Stringing beads of destiny, they work to lead one daughter back to her source. But what must Alma sacrifice to honor the River Mother's call?
590			_aNLJCols20082021
650			_aGoddesses, African _xFiction.
650			_aAfrican American women _xFiction.
650			_aAfrican American families _xFiction.
650			_aAfrican American families _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00799152
650			_aAfrican American women _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00799438
650			_aGoddesses, African _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00944188
651			_aWest Indian fiction
655			_aEpic fiction. _2lcgft
655			_aFiction _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01423787
655			_aEpic literature. _2gsafd
942			_cBK _hF _2ddc _iJac
999			_c265599 _d265598