Faith and the Good Thing

by Charles R. Johnson

Book Overview

Faith Cross, a beautiful and purely innocent young black woman, is told by her dying mother to go and get herself "a good thing." Thus begins an extraordinary pilgrim's progress that takes Faith from the magic and mysticism of the rural South to the promises and perils of modern-day Chicago. It is an odyssey that propels Faith from the degradation of prostitution, drugs, and drink into a faceless middle-class reality, and finally into a searing tragedy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0743212541
• ISBN13: 9780743212540
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Free Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.0"