Getting Mother's Body
2003 debut novel by Suzan-Lori Parks
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Getting Mother's Body: A Novel is a 2003 novel by Suzan-Lori Parks, published by Random House.[1] It was her debut novel, after she previously won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the play Topdog/Underdog in 2002.[2] It reimagines William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying as about an African American family in Texas in 1963.