# Getting Mother's Body

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- Book: [Getting Mother's Body](https://www.bookquiver.com/suzan-lori-parks/getting-mothers-body) ([Getting Mother's Body.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/suzan-lori-parks/getting-mothers-body.md))
- Authors: [Suzan-Lori Parks](https://www.bookquiver.com/suzan-lori-parks)
- Publisher: random_house_trade_paperbacks
- ISBN: 978-08-1296-800-2
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2004-04-13
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks’s wildly original debut novel, Getting Mother’s Body, follows pregnant, unmarried Billy Beede and her down-and-out family in 1960s Texas as they search...