ABSTRACT
Suzan-Lori Parks won the Pulitzer Prize last year for her play Topdog/Underdog and became the first African American woman to garner that playwriting laurel. A year before, the Mount Holyoke graduate received a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” that brought her $500,000. Now the multi-talented wordsmith is on a national book tour for her debut novel, Getting Mother’s Body (Random House, 257 pages, $23.95), with a robust first printing of 100,000 copies.
