Woman Said Yes: Encounters with Life and Death

by Jessamyn West

Overview

In a memoir filled with compassion and deep resolve, West celebrates the lives of three women-her strong Quaker mother, her beloved and courageous sister, and herself-and gives personal insight into her own battle to survive tuberculosis.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780156982900
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	09/30/1986
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.31(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jessamyn West (1902-1984) was born in Indiana to Quaker parents and lived most of her life in California. Her work has appeared in Harper's, Mademoiselle, Kenyon Review, the New Yorker, and Redbook, among others. Her other books include The State of Stony Lonesome, Massacre at Fall Creek, and The Collected Stories of Jessamyn West.