This collection of fiction is heavily autobiographical, and includes a story about the activities of Walker and her first husband, a Jewish lawyer, in the civil rights movement, and a remembrance of a great-aunt who was a former slave.

Celie is a poor black woman whose letters tell the story of 20 years of her life, beginning at age 14 when she is being abused and raped by her father and attempting to protect her sister from the same fate, and continuing over the co...

The story of an American family--would-be writer Susannah, her sister Magdalena, and her parents--who take up life with an endangered mixed race of Black Indians in the Mexican Sierras, explores how a woman's denied sexuality leads to...

Kate Talkingtree, an African-American feminist writer who has made it big, decides to join an all-female rafting trip down the Colorado. There she has an epiphany, and when she returns home she eschews sex with her lover, eventually s...

Admirers of The Color Purple will find in these stories more evidenceof Walker's power to depict black women—women who varygreatly in background yet are bound together by what they share incommon.Taken as a whole, their stories form...

Celie is a poor black woman whose letters tell the story of 20 years of her life, beginning at age 14 when she is being abused and raped by her father and attempting to protect her sister from the same fate, and continuing over the co...

Its important, frankly political, semi-taboo subject matter should automatically make YOU CAN'T KEEP A GOOD WOMAN DOWN fascinating to anyone, black or white, with his head not completely entrenched in the sand. Miss Walker has, moreov...

At its best...the tone of the book [is] flat, direct, measured, deliberate, with a distinct lack of drama....And the tone is right; it's not the plot that carries the novel forward but Meridian's attempt to resolve, or preserve the re...

The stunning New York Times bestseller, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple, reissued in a handsome new edition.From the author the New York Times Book Review calls 'a lavishly gifted writer,' this is the searin...

For the past several years, on a farm north of San Francisco, the celebrated writer Alice Walker has diligently cared for a flock of chickens. Over time, her blossoming relationship with "her girls" became a source of inspir...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Alice Walker's iconic modern classic is now a Penguin Book.A powerful cultural touchstone of modern American literature, The Color Purple depicts the lives of African American ...

First published in 1990, The Temple of My Familiar, Alice Walker's follow-up novel to her iconic The Color Purple, spent more than four months on the New York Times Bestseller list and was hailed by critics as a "major achievemen...