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The Color Purple (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (National Book Award Winner)
By Alice Walker
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By Alice Walker
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One of the cornerstones of modern American literature, The Color Purple is the often tragic, always uplifting story of Celie and Nettie, separated sisters who carry on through letters. This is a story deep and complex, dark and true. It delivers on so many emotional levels and is required reading for anyone.
Read the original inspiration for the new, boldly reimagined film from producers Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg, starring Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, and Fantasia Barrino.
Celebrating its fortieth anniversary, The Color Purple writes a message of healing, forgiveness, self-discovery, and sisterhood to a new generation of readers. An inspiration to authors who continue to give voice to the multidimensionality of Black women’s stories, including Tayari Jones, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers...
Celebrating its fortieth anniversary, The Color Purple writes a message of healing, forgiveness, self-discovery, and sisterhood to a new generation of readers. An inspiration to authors who continue to give voice to the multidimensionality of Black women’s stories, including Tayari Jones, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers...
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