Possessing the secret of joy

"[T]his is the searing story of Tashi, a tribal African woman. . .whose memory of her sister's early death and whose fateful decision to submit to the tsunga's knife and be genitally mutilated forever alter her existence. Narrated through an evocative chorus of voices. . .[this story] follows Tashi's struggle to understand the forces of oppression that led to her trauma, to access her own painful past (even seeking treatment from Carl Jung), and, eventually, to discover the secret of joy."

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