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Faith Cross is told by her dying mother to "find herself the Good Thing", although she has no idea what it is. By following this young woman's extensive journey, readers can glimpse the history of 20th century black America, annotated with philosophic insight into the nature of identify and justice along the way.
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Charles Johnson
Summary
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 that ironically leads to the discovery of the real Good Thing. National Book Award-winner Charles Johnson's first novel, originally published in 1974, puts the life-affirming soul of the African-American experience at the summit of American storytelling.
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Black World One of the great American novels of this century...unqualifiedly good and extraordinarily beautiful.
