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Author | Ntozake Shange |
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Cover artist | Lisa Marie Pompilio |
Language | English |
Genre | Novel |
Published | 1994 |
Publisher | St. Martin's Press |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
Pages | 288 pages |
ISBN | 0312644108 |
Preceded by | Betsey Brown |
Followed by | Some Sing, Some Cry |
Liliane: Resurrection of The Daughter is a novel by Ntozake Shange. It was originally published by St. Martin's Press in 1994. The novel tells the coming-of-age story of a young Black woman, Liliane Parnell, through the numerous voices of childhood friends, family, lovers, acquaintances, conversations between Liliane and her psychoanalyst, and Liliane herself. Liliane is the daughter of a wealthy and prominent African-American judge, Lincoln Parnell, and his beautiful wife Sunday Bliss Parnell who is working towards reconciling her life as an artist in the present with both the secrets and the expectations of class ascendance from her family's past.