In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens

A collection of early personal and political essays from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple.
Includes a new letter written by the author

What is a womanist? Alice Walker sets out to define the concept in this anthology of early essays and other nonfiction pieces. As she outlines it, a womanist is a person who prefers to side with the oppressed: with women, with people of color, with the poor. As a writer, Walker has always taken such people as her primary subjects, and h...