Walker, Alice
Summary: "The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart begins with a lyrical, autobiographical story of a marriage set in the violent and volatile Deep South during the early years of the civil rights movement. Walker goes on to imagine stories that grew out of the life following that marriage - a life, she writes, that was "marked by deep sea-changes and transitions." These provocative stories showcase...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALWalker, Alice
Summary: A novel on two black sisters whose father forbids teen sex and when one engages in it gives her a hiding. The novel explores "the ways in which a woman's denied sexuality leads to the loss of the much-prized and necessary original self." By the author of The Color Purple.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALWalker, Alice
Summary: The Pulitzer Prize--winning author weaves a "glorious and iridescent" (Library Journal) tapestry of interrelated lives in this new edition of the New York Times bestselling sequel to The Color Purple. In The Temple of My Familiar, Celie and Shug from The Color Purple subtly shadow the lives of dozens of characters, all dealing in some way with the legacy of the African experience in America....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023