By the Light of My Father’s Smile
A family from the United States goes to the remote Sierras in Mexico–the writer-to-be, Susannah; her sister, Magdalena; her father and mother. And there, amid an endangered band of mixed-race Blacks and Indians called…
Possessing the Secret of Joy
From the author the Washington Post calls “a writer of bold artistry,” this is the searing story of Tashi, a tribal African woman first glimpsed in The Color Purple, whose memory of her sister’s early…
Book: Meridian
As the old rules of Southern society collapse, Meridian fights a lonely battle to reaffirm her own humanity – and that of all her people. “A glowing affirmation of the possibility …of love…
The Third Life of Grange Copeland
Alice Walker’s first novel is “graphic and authentic…moving, tender, and all too tragic…. She writes with power, sensitivity, and all-pervading humanity” Publishers Weekly THE THIRD LIFE OF GRANGE COPELAND (1970) Despondent…
