"African American women" . . "African American families Fiction." . . . . "African American women Fiction." . . . . . . . "Fiction"@en . "Fiction" . "Domestic fiction"@en . . "Domestic fiction" . . . . . . . . . . . . . "The serpent's gift"@en . "The lives of two African-American families who unite after a breadwinner dies. A son becomes a writer of folk stories and oral history, and it is he who provides the novel with its social and historical content."@en . "The lives of two African-American families who unite after a breadwinner dies. A son becomes a writer of folk stories and oral history, and it is he who provides the novel with its social and historical content." . "Serpent's gift"@en . . . . "The serpent's gift" . . . . . "African American families" . .