This novel is about the incarceration of four women in a Florida prison: Frankie Whittaker, the drug-addicted daughter of a rich developer in South Florida who has already lost one daughter to violence; Violet Temple, who had been abused by her husband for years before she finally murdered him; Leigh McCall, a former prostitute, who risks her freedom to help an old woman receiving questionable medical treatment; and Jewel, an ertswhile associate of of Frankie, who falls in love with a woman named Lucky. / The four women interact with each other and with the other inmates and in so doing, learn about themselves and find ways to create a community. For some this community will not suffice, but for others it is a form of redemption. Violet and Frankie join the choir, and by the end of the novel, they have formed an alliance to put out a prison newspaper. When prison officials forbid them from creating the newspaper, they violate the orders and do it anyway, willing to suffer the consequences for what they believe is right. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-07, Section: A, page: 2683. / Major Professor: Sheila Ortiz Taylor. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1995.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_77492 |
| Contributors | MacEnulty, Patricia B., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 399 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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