POSSESSING THE SECRET OF JOY

Literature & Fiction

ALICE WALKER

United States

Vintage

Warrior Marks: Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women

The author of The Color Purple travels to Gambia, Senegal, and Burkina to interview a group of women trying to eliminate the traditional practice of female clitoral circumcision, a practice forced on women by the men of those societies. 100,000 first printing.

Biographies & Memoirs

Pratibha Parmar

Community & Culture

Harcourt, Brace & Co.

Finding the Green Stone

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Thomson Learning

The Color Purple

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 course of her marriage to "Mister," a brutal man who terrorizes her. Celie eventually learns that her abusive husband has been keeping her sister's letters from her and the rage she feels, combined with an example of love and independence provided by her close friend Shug, pushes her finally toward an awakening of her creative and loving self.

Mariner Books

The Third Life of Grange Copeland

Despondent over the futility of life in the South, black tenant farmer Grange Copeland leaves his wife and son in Georgia to head North. After meeting an equally humiliating existence there, he returns to Georgia, years later, to find his son, Brownfield, imprisoned for the murder of his wife. As the guardian of the couple's youngest daughter, Grange Copeland is looking at his third -- and final -- chance to free himself from spiritual and social enslavement.

<div>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 course of her marriage to "Mister," a brutal man who terrorizes her. Celie eventually learns that her abusive husband has been keeping her sister's letters from her and the rage she feels, combined with an example of love and independence provided by her close friend Shug, pushes her finally toward an awakening of her creative and loving self. </div>

Dramas & Plays

Harvest Books

Walker’s complete poems, including new and previously unpublished verse, collected for the first time-with author’s notes that provide historical perspective on spiritual and political issues of the last three decades.

Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990 Complete

Poetry

Admirers of The Color Purple will find in these stories more evidence of Walker’s power to depict black women-women who vary greatly in background yet are bound together. “One of the most important, grieving, graceful, and honest writers ever to come into print” (June Jordan).

In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women

Harcourt Brace & Company/Harvest

Alice Walker Fiction-3 Vol. Boxed

Quality Paperback Book Club

Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker

Arts & Literature

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

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