Jonathan Odell’s THE HEALING opens in 1930s Mississippi when a young girl traumatized by her mother’s death is abandoned to the care of Gran Gran, an ancient midwife and plantation healer whose mixtures of roots, herbs, and potions fail to help the mother but whose tales of her life on a Mississippi plantation as a reluctant apprentice to a brilliant slave doctor teach them both the power of story to heal the body, spirit and ultimately an entire community, to Nan Talese at Nan A. Talese, with Ronit Feldman editing, in a good deal, in a pre-empt, by Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff & Associates (NA).
