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The Color Purple Collection
The Color Purple Collection: The Color Purple, The Temple of My Familiar, and Possessing the Secret of Joy | Alice Walker
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Three powerful novels by bestselling author Alice Walkerbeginning with her Pulitzer Prizewinning The Color Purplethat speak to the African experience in America. The Color Purple is Walkers stunning, Pulitzer Prizewinning novel of courage in the face of oppression. Celie grows up in rural Georgia, navigating a childhood of ceaseless abuse. Not only is she poor and despised by the society around her, shes badly treated by her family. As a teenager she begins writing letters directly to God in an attempt to transcend a life that often seems too much to bear. Her letters span twenty years and record a journey of self-discovery and empowerment through the guiding light of a few strong women and her own implacable will to find harmony with herself and her home. In The Temple of My Familiar, Celie and Shug from The Color Purple follow the lives of a brilliant cast of characters, all dealing in some way with the legacy of the African experience in America. From recent African immigrants, to a woman who grew up in the mixed-race rainforest communities of South America, to Celies own granddaughter living in modern-day San Francisco, all must come to understand the brutal stories of their ancestors to come to terms with their own troubled lives. Possessing the Secret of Joy portrays Tashis tribe, the Olinka, where young girls undergo circumcision as an initiation into the community. Tashi manages to avoid this fate at first, but when pressed by tribal leaders, she submits. Years later, married and living in America as Evelyn Johnson, Tashis inner pain emerges. As she questions why such a terrifying, disfiguring sacrifice was required, she sorts through the many levels of subjugation with which shes been burdened over the years. Hailed by the Washington Post as one of the best American writers of today, Alice Walker is a master storyteller and a major voice in modern literary fiction.
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#JumpIntoJanuary Day 23: I see #Greatness ahead with these beautiful and intelligent women at the helm.

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💜💜💜 love this because im a self-diagnosed purple freak!

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Reminds me of the philosophy of the church I grew up in.

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I took six months to read this book because it was on my phone and that's not my usual format. It's beautifully written, depressing, and hopeful. A moving read for feminists. A lot of good quotes.

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So this is $2.99 today for Nook! I bought it. Sure did. Without a second thought!