"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." 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.
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