The Temple of My Familiar -- Alice Walker, Paperback

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple weaves a "glorious and iridescent" tapestry of interrelated lives in this gorgeous novel (Library Journal).

In The Temple of My Familiar, Celie and Shug from The Color Purple subtly shadow the lives of dozens of characters, all dealing in some way with the legacy of the African experience in America. From recent African immigrants, to a woman who grew up in the mixed-race rainforest communities of South America, to Celie's own granddaughter living in modern-day San Francisco, all must come to understand the brutal stories of their ancestors to come to terms with their own troubled lives.

As Walker follows these astonishing characters, she weaves a new mythology from old fables and history, a profoundly spiritual explanation for centuries of shared African-American experience.

Author: Alice Walker
Publisher: Amistad Press
Published: 09/03/2010
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.60w x 1.01d
ISBN: 9780547480008

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.5
Point Value: 23
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 8673 / Temple of My Familiar

About the Author
Best-selling novelist ALICE WALKER is also the author of three collections of short stories, three collections of essays, six volumes of poetry, and several children's books.