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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award
A powerful cultural touchstone of modern American literature, The Color Purple depicts the lives of African American women in early twentieth-century rural Georgia. Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other across time, distance and silence. Through a series of letters spanning twenty years, first from Celie to God, then the sisters to each other despite the unknown, the novel draws readers into its rich and memorable portrayals of Celie, Nettie, Shug Avery and Sofia and their experience. The Color Purple broke the silence around domestic and sexual abuse, narrating the lives of women through their pain and struggle, companionship and growth, resilience and bravery. Deeply compassionate and beautifully imagined, Alice Walker's epic carries readers on a spirit-affirming journey towards redemption and love.
￢ﾀﾜReading The Color Purple was the first time I had seen Southern, Black women￢ﾀﾙs literature as world literature. In writing us into the world￢ﾀﾔbravely, unapologetically, and honestly￢ﾀﾔAlice Walker has given us a gift we will never be able to repay.￢ﾀﾝ ￢ﾀﾔTayari Jones
￢ﾀﾜThe Color Purple was what church should have been, what honest familial reckoning could have been, and it is still the only art object in the world by which all three generations of Black artists in my family judge American art.￢ﾀﾝ ￢ﾀﾔKiese Laymon
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