( December 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Ĭelie is a poor 14-year-old African-American girl living in rural Georgia in the early 1900s.

Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. Every single time I read this book, I walk away as a slightly better person than I was when I picked it up.This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. Its big, beautiful happy ending is heartfelt and hard-won. Even though it touches on difficult subject matter like child abuse and forced marriage, this story believes that human kindness, courage and love can defeat any challenge. “My go-to comfort novel is The Color Purple, by Alice Walker.

“A saga filled with joy and pain, humor and bitterness, and an array of characters who live, breathe, and illuminate the world.” a vibrant fugue of devotion and search for love.” not only a memorable and infinitely touching character but a whole submerged world is vividly called into being.” “Remarkable expressiveness, color, and poignancy . . . “Places Walker in the company of Faulkner.” “A work to stand beside literature of any time and place.” “Indelibly affecting … Alice Walker is a lavishly gifted writer.” “ 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.” In writing us into the world-bravely, unapologetically, and honestly-Alice Walker has given us a gift we will never be able to repay.” “Reading The Color Purple was the first time I had seen Southern, black women’s literature as world literature. Deeply compassionate and beautifully imagined, Alice Walker's epic carries readers on a spirit-affirming journey towards redemption and love. 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. 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. Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other across time, distance and silence. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.Ī powerful cultural touchstone of modern American literature, The Color Purple depicts the lives of African American women in early twentieth-century rural Georgia. The Color Purple: A Novel Paperback – December 10, 2019

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