The Temple of My Familiar

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Pub Date Sep 20 2011 | Archive Date Oct 05 2012

Description

In Walker’s follow-up to The Color Purple, webs of characters are drawn toward critical confrontations with history

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. From recent African immigrants, to a woman who grew up in the mixed-race rainforest communities of South America, to Celie’s 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.

As Walker follows these astonishing characters, she weaves a new mythology from old fables and history, a profoundly spiritual explanation for centuries of shared African-American experience.

This ebook features an illustrated biography of Alice Walker including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.

In Walker’s follow-up to The Color Purple, webs of characters are drawn toward critical confrontations with history

In The Temple of My Familiar, Celie and Shug from The Color Purple subtly shadow...


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