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Melanie Burford The Dallas Morning News
"THE DEATH OF GLORIA JACKSON"


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Summary: In a back bedroom of a small white house, Gloria Jackson is dying of ovarian cancer, a morphine drip measuring her final moments. The family gathers around her bed, quiet, somber, afraid. As she fights cancer, her three teenage daughters become mothers, her sons drop out of school. This is a universal story about the people who live, trapped in a world of generational and cyclical poverty. It's life and death, oppression and resistance, faith and despair. In the shadow of Texas' richest county, the Jackson's pray for a miracle.
 

 

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