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By the Light of My Father’s Smile

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    In Alice Walker: Later work and controversies

    …centered on female genital mutilation; By the Light of My Father’s Smile (1998), the story of a family of anthropologists posing as Christian missionaries in order to gain access to a Mexican tribe; and Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart (2005), about an older woman’s quest for identity.…

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