Alice Walker
Noted American writer Alice Walker won a Pulitzer Prize for her stance against racism and sexism in such novels as
The Color Purple
(1982). People awarded this preeminent author of stories, essays, and poetry of the United States. In 1983, this first African woman for fiction also received the national book award. Her other books include
The Third Life of Grange Copeland
,
Meridian
,
The Temple of My Familiar
, and
Possessing the Secret of Joy
. In public life, Walker worked to address problems of injustice, inequality, and poverty as an activist, teacher, and public intellectual. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_W...
A Cor Púrpura
Alice Walker
O livro teve uma adaptação para o cinema, filme dirigido por Steven Spielberg, com Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey e Danny Glover no elenco.Um dos mais importantes títulos de toda a história da literatura, inspiração para a aclamada obra cinematográfica homônima dirigida por Steven Spielberg, o romance A cor púrpura retrata a dura vida de Celie, uma mulher negra do sul dos Estados Unidos da primeira metade do século XX. Pobre e praticamente analfabeta, Celie foi abusada, física e psicologicamente, desde a infância pelo padrasto e depois pelo marido.Um universo delicado, no entanto, é construído a partir das cartas que Celie escreve e das experiências de amizade e amor, sobretudo com a inesquecível Shug Avery. Apesar da dramaticidade de seu enredo, A cor púrpura se mostra extremamente atual e nos faz refletir sobre as relações de amor, ódio e poder, em uma sociedade ainda marcada pelas desigualdades de gênero, etnia e classes sociais.
Alice Walker Reading Nineteen Fifty Five
Alice Walker
Following a brief introduction to her life and work, author Walker reads her short story, Nineteen fifty-five, which is a fictional account of the exploitation of Black musicians by the white rock'n'roll industry.
Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism
Alice Walker
In Anything We Love Can Be Saved, Alice Walker writes about her life as an activist, in a book rich in the belief that the world is saveable, if only we will act. Speaking from her heart on a wide range of topics--religion and the spirit, feminism and race, families and identity, politics and social change--Walker begins with a moving autobiographical essay in which she describes her own spiritual growth and roots in activism. She goes on to explore many important private and public being a daughter and raising one, dreadlocks, banned books, civil rights, and gender communication. She writes about Zora Neale Hurston and Salman Rushdie and offers advice to Bill Clinton. Here is a wise woman's thoughts as she interacts with the world today, and an important portrait of an activist writer's This edition does not include photographs.
A Poem Traveled Down My Arm: Poems and Drawings
Alice Walker
A Terceira Vida de Grange Copeland
Alice Walker
A terceira vida de Grange Copeland revela o cotidiano de uma família negra no Sul dos Estados Unidos, por três gerações. Oprimido pela estrutura racista do condado de Baker, o trabalhador rural Grange Copeland abandona a família e amante para ganhar a vida no Norte, mas retorna, após passar por experiências transformadoras, decidido nunca mais conviver com pessoas brancas. Grange refaz sua vida, torna-se fazendeiro, mas tem que lidar com as consequências de suas escolhas no passado.
Escrito com linguagem poderosa e precisa, o livro trata de violência - racial, social, familiar, contra a mulher -, mas também da força humana, capaz de mudar uma realidade inóspita por meio do amor e da desconstrução de estruturas patriarcais.
"Quase ninguém tentou nos contar sobre o início da vida, sobre a vida íntima das pessoas negras [...]. Alice Walker é uma contadora de histórias." - The New Yorker
"Alice Walker nos comove ao enfatizar a humanidade que compartilhamos com seus personagens." - Chicago Daily News
Culoarea purpurie
Alice Walker
Celie îi scrie scrisori lui Dumnezeu. Începe la paisprezece ani, când e o adolescentă afro-americană care trăiește în Sudul ostil al începutului de secol XX, până când – trei decenii mai târziu – își găsește în sfârșit locul pe Pământ, după o viață plină de abuzuri și de suferință. Culoarea purpurie este un Bildungsroman memorabil, dar şi cronica unei familii legate de relaţii complicate, de femei puternice, de ură şi dragoste.
Mai mult decât unul dintre cele mai importante romane americane, mai mult decât un clasic al literaturii feministe şi o lectură esenţială a literaturii LGBT, cartea lui Alice Walker este, în primul rând, o poveste despre „sarea pământului“: despre oameni cu bune şi rele, despre raportul dintre ei și tot ce-i înconjoară şi despre orbecăiala lor prin această lume.
„Acest roman o situează pe Walker alături de Faulkner.“
The Nation
Die Farbe Lila
Alice Walker
EINER DER BEDEUTENDSTEN AMERIKANISCHEN
ROMANE ALLER ZEITEN
Die junge Schwarze Celie wächst Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts
in Georgia auf. Während ihre Mutter im Sterben liegt,
wird sie mit vierzehn zum ersten Mal von ihrem Vater vergewaltigt
und in den Folgejahren zweimal schwanger. Er gibt
die Kinder weg, sie weiß nicht, ob sie noch leben oder tot sind.
Als sie in die Ehe mit einem Mann gezwungen wird, der sie
schlägt, wendet sich Celie in verzweifelten Briefen an Gott,
da sie keinen anderen Ausweg mehr weiß.
Erst als ihr Mann seine Geliebte Shug Avery ins Haus holt,
verbessert sich Celies Situation. Sie verliebt sich in Shug und
lernt von ihr, dass echte Liebe nichts mit Gewalt zu tun hat.
Durch Shugs Liebe und die Freundschaft weiterer Frauen geht
Celie endlich gegen alle Widerstände ihren Weg.
El color púrpura
Alice Walker
El color púrpura cuenta, a lo largo de distintas décadas, la intensa vida de Celie, una mujer de la América rural del Sur. Forzada a casarse con un hombre brutal. Celie se retrae y comparte su desgracia sólo con Dios. Celie sufrirá una transformación gracias a la amistad que comparte con dos extraordinarias mujeres, adquiriendo la autoestima y la fuerza que necesita para perdonar.
Everyday Use
Alice Walker
Alice Walker's early story, "Everyday Use," has remained a cornerstone of her work. Her use of quilting as a metaphor for the creative legacy that African Americans inherited from their maternal ancestors changed the way we define art, women's culture, and African American lives. By putting African American women's voices at the center of the narrative for the first time, "Everyday Use" anticipated the focus of an entire generation of black women writers.
This casebook includes an introduction by the editor, a chronology of Walker's life, an authoritative text of "Everyday Use" and of "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens," an interview with Walker, six critical essays, and a bibliography. The contributors are Charlotte Pierce-Baker, Houston A. Baker, Jr., Thadious M. Davis, Margot Anne Kelley, John O'Brien, Elaine Showalter, and Mary Helen Washington.
Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965–2000
Alice Walker
From National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize–winning author Alice Walker and edited by critic and writer Valerie Boyd, comes an unprecedented compilation of Walker’s fifty years of journals drawing an intimate portrait of her development over five decades as an artist, human rights and women’s activist, and intellectual.
For the first time, the edited journals of Alice Walker are gathered together to reflect the complex, passionate, talented, and acclaimed Pulitzer Prize winner of The Color Purple. She intimately explores her thoughts and feelings as a woman, a writer, an African-American, a wife, a daughter, a mother, a lover, a sister, a friend, a citizen of the world.
In an unvarnished and singular voice, she explores an astonishing array of marching in Mississippi with other foot soldiers of the Civil Rights Movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr.; her marriage to a Jewish lawyer, defying laws that barred interracial marriage in the 1960s South; an early miscarriage; writing her first novel; the trials and triumphs of the Women’s Movement; erotic encounters and enduring relationships; the ancestral visits that led her to write The Color Purple ; winning the Pulitzer Prize; being admired and maligned, sometimes in equal measure, for her work and her activism; and burying her mother. A powerful blend of Walker’s personal life with political events, this revealing collection offers rare insight into a literary legend.
Hard Times Require Furious Dancing (A Palm of Her Hand Project)
Alice Walker
“Though we have encountered our share of grief and troubles on this earth, we can still hold the line of beauty, form, and beat. No small accomplishment in a world as challenging as this one.”— from the prefaceI was born to grow,alongside my garden of plants,poemslikethis oneSo writes Alice Walker in this new book of poems, poems composed over the course of one year in response to joy and sorrow both personal and global: the death of loved ones, war, the deliciousness of love, environmental devastation, the sorrow of rejection, greed, poverty, and the sweetness of home. The poems embrace our connections while celebrating the joy of individuality, the power we each share to express our truest, deepest selves. Beloved for her ability to speak her own truth in ways that speak for and about countless others, she demonstrates that we are stronger than our circumstances. As she confronts personal and collective challenges, her words dance, sing, and heal.
Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful
Alice Walker
Alice Walker has always turned to poetry to express some of her most personal and deeply felt concerns. She has said that her poems-even the happy ones-emerge from an accumulation of sadness, when she stands again “in the sunlight.” “[This collection] has two fine strengths-a music that comes along sometimes, as sad and cheery as a lonely woman’s whistling-and Miss Walker’s own tragicomic gifts” (New York Times Book Review).
Il colore viola
Alice Walker
In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women
Alice Walker
Admirers of The Color Purple will find in these stories more evidenceof Walker's power to depict black women--women who varygreatly in background yet are bound together by what they share incommon.Taken as a whole, their stories form an enlightening, disturbing view of life in the South.
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Prose
Alice Walker
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
Alice Walker
In this, her first collection of nonfiction, Alice Walker speaks out as a black woman, writer, mother, and feminist in thirty-six pieces ranging from the personal to the political. Among the contents are essays about other writers, accounts of the civil rights movement of the 1960s and the antinuclear movement of the 1980s, and a vivid memoir of a scarring childhood injury and her daughter's healing words.
Kolor purpury
Alice Walker
La Couleur pourpre
Alice Walker
"Toute ma vie je m'ai moquée de ce que les gens pensaient de moi. Mais dans mon coeur, c'était important Dieu qu'est-ce qu'il pensait. Et voilà maintenant que j'ai compris, il pense pas, il se prélasse là-haut, assis sur son trône à faire la sourde oreille."
Célie est née sous de tristes auspices. Hier régulièrement violée par son père et aujourd'hui négligée par son mari, elle ne connaît des hommes que leurs pires travers.
L'amour, pour elle, c'est d'abord Shug, une merveilleuse chanteuse de blues qui saura l'extraire de sa pauvre vie. C'est aussi Nettie, sa soeur, missionnaire en Afrique, avec laquelle elle correspond sans relâche. L'amour, c'est encore le bon Dieu, à qui elle s'adresse parfois, même si elle a l'impression qu'il la laisse un peu tomber.
Living by the Word: Essays
Alice Walker
Essays from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple--"Vintage Alice passionate, political, personal, and poetic" (Los Angeles Times). In a follow-up to her collection of essays, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens, Walker takes a look at a vast range of issues both personal and global, from her experience with the filming of The Color Purple, to the history of African-American narrative traditions, to global threats of pollution and nuclear war. Walker travels broadly and maintains an eye for detail, resulting in a captivating journey of conscience by one of the most distinctive political and artistic voices in America. Readers will find inspiration and insights in even the briefest entries of this enthralling anthology. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Alice Walker including rare photos from the author's personal collection.
Meridian
Alice Walker
From Alice Walker, author of the Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winner The Color Purple, comes Meridian, "a classic novel of both feminism and the Civil Rights movement" ( Ms .).
Meridian Hill is a young woman at an Atlanta college attempting to find her place in the 1960s revolution for racial and social equality. She discovers the limits beyond which she will not go for the cause, but despite her decision not to follow the path of some of her peers, she makes significant sacrifices in order to further her beliefs.
Working in a campaign to register African American voters, Meridian cares broadly and deeply for the people she visits, and, while her coworkers quit and move to comfortable homes, she continues to work in the deep South despite a paralyzing illness. Meridian's nonviolent methods, though seemingly less radical than the methods of others, prove to be an effective means of furthering her beliefs.
"A glowing affirmation of the possibility...of love and forgiveness—between men and women, black and white."— Baltimore Sun
Meridian: With an introduction by Tayari Jones (W&N Essentials)
Alice Walker
'My life suddenly made sense when I encountered Alice Walker's fiction' Tayari Jones
'Remarkable' New York Times
Meridian Hill, the brilliant and inquisitive daughter of a working-class Black family in the American south, comes of age against the turbulent backdrop of the 1960s civil rights movement. Life starts out hard - at seventeen, she finds herself married with a child and denied an education because of it. But Meridian is passionate and resolute, determined to improve the lives of those around her, even in the face of oppression and uncertainty, heartbreak and failing health. And amid the chaos of social upheaval, Meridian discovers who she is - a woman capable of great courage, resilience and hope.
Charting the story of the civil rights movement through one woman's struggle, Meridian is a powerful meditation on community, womanhood and self-discovery from the Pulitzer-prize winning author of The Color Purple .
Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart
Alice Walker
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple, Possessing the Secret of Joy, and The Temple of My Familiar now gives us a beautiful new novel that is at once a deeply moving personal story and a powerful spiritual journey. In Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart, Alice Walker has created a work that ranks among her ?nest achievements: the story of a woman’s spiritual adventure that becomes a passage through time, a quest for self, and a collision with love. Kate has always been a wanderer. A well-published author, married many times, she has lived a life rich with explorations of the natural world and the human soul. Now, at fifty-seven, she leaves her lover, Yolo, to embark on a new excursion, one that begins on the Colorado River, proceeds through the past, and flows, inexorably, into the future. As Yolo begins his own parallel voyage, Kate encounters celibates and lovers, shamans and snakes, memories of family disaster and marital discord, and emerges at a place where nothing remains but love. Told with the accessible style and deep feeling that are its author’s hallmarks, Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart is Alice Walker’s most surprising achievement.From the Hardcover edition.
Once
Alice Walker
Overcoming Speechlessness: A Poet Encounters the Horror in Rwanda, Eastern Congo, and Palestine/Israel
Alice Walker
In 2006, Alice Walker, working with Women for Women International, visited Rwanda and the eastern Congo to witness the aftermath of the genocide in Kigali. Invited by Code Pink, an antiwar group working to end the Iraq War, Walker traveled to Palestine/Israel three years later to view the devastation on the Gaza Strip. Here is her testimony.
Bearing witness to the depravity and cruelty, she presents the stories of the individuals who crossed her path and shared their tales of suffering and courage. Part of what has happened to human beings over the last century, she believes, is that we have been rendered speechless by unusually barbaric behavior that devalues human life. We have no words to describe what we witness. Self-imposed silence has slowed our response to the plight of those who most need us, often women and children, but also men of conscience who resist evil but are outnumbered by those around them who have fallen victim to a belief in weapons, male or ethnic dominance, and greed.
Possessing the Secret of Joy
Alice Walker
Possessing the Secret of Joy is the story of Tashi, a tribal African woman who lives much of her adult life in North America. As a young woman, a misguided loyalty to the customs of her people led her to voluntarily submit to the tsunga's knife and be genitally mutilated (pharoanoically circumcised). Severely traumatized by this experience, she spends the rest of her life battling madness, trying desperately through psychotherapy - she is treated by disciples of both Freud and C.G. Jung, and even by Jung himself - to regain the ability to recognize her own reality and to feel. It is only with the help of the most unlikely ally she can imagine that she begins to study the mythological "reasons" invented by her ancient ancestors for what was done to her and to millions of other women and girls over thousands of years. As her understanding grows, so does her capacity to encounter her overwhelming grief. Underneath this grief is her glowing anger. Anger propels her to act. Action brings both feeling - life, the ability to exist with awareness in the moment - and death, of which she finds she has completely lost her fear.
While not a sequel to The Color Purple or The Temple of My Familiar, Possessing the Secret of Joy follows the life of a barely-glimpsed character from those books. Combining fact and fiction, communing with the spirits of the living and the dead, Alice Walker in this novel strikes with graceful power at the heart of one of the most controversial issues of our time.
Renklerden Moru
Alice Walker
Revolutionary Petunias (Harvest Book)
Alice Walker
These poems are about revolutionaries and lovers-about how, both in revolution and in love, loss of trust and compassion robs us of hope. They are also about (and for) those few embattled souls who remain painfully committed to beauty and to love even while facing the firing squad. “Quick, direct, witty, pungent” (DeWitt Beall, Chicago Daily News).
Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart
Alice Walker
Presented in both English and Spanish, Alice Walker shares a timely collection of nearly seventy works of passionate and powerful poetry that bears witness to our troubled times, while also chronicling a life well-lived. From poems of painful self-inquiry, to celebrating the simple beauty of baking frittatas, Walker offers us a window into her magical, at times difficult, and liberating world of activism, love, hope and, above all, gratitude. Whether she’s urging us to preserve an urban paradise or behold the delicate necessity of beauty to the spirit, Walker encourages us to honor the divine that lives inside all of us and brings her legendary free verse to the page once again, demonstrating that she remains a revolutionary poet and an inspiration to generations of fans.
The Chicken Chronicles: Sitting with the Angels Who Have Returned with My Memories: Glorious, Rufus, Gertrude Stein, Splendor, Hortensia, Agnes of God, The Gladyses, & Babe
Alice Walker
The Color Purple
Alice Walker
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.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award
A powerful cultural touchstone of modern American literature, The Color Purple depicts the lives of African American women in early twentieth-century rural Georgia. Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other across time, distance and silence. Through a series of letters spanning twenty years, first from Celie to God, then the sisters to each other despite the unknown, the novel draws readers into its rich and memorable portrayals of Celie, Nettie, Shug Avery and Sofia and their experience. The Color Purple broke the silence around domestic and sexual abuse, narrating the lives of women through their pain and struggle, companionship and growth, resilience and bravery. Deeply compassionate and beautifully imagined, Alice Walker's epic carries readers on a spirit-affirming journey towards redemption and love.
“Reading The Color Purple was the first time I had seen Southern, Black women’s literature as world literature. In writing us into the world—bravely, unapologetically, and honestly—Alice Walker has given us a gift we will never be able to repay.” —Tayari Jones
“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.” —Kiese Laymon
The Color Purple Collection: The Color Purple, The Temple of My Familiar, and Possessing the Secret of Joy
Alice Walker
Three powerful novels by Alice Walker, beginning with her masterpiece The Color Purple, and following characters as they are drawn into critical confrontations with history
The Color Purple is Walker’s stunning, Pulitzer Prize–winning novel of courage in the face of oppression. Celie grows up in rural Georgia, navigating a childhood of ceaseless abuse. Not only is she poor and despised by the society around her, she’s badly treated by her family. As a teenager she begins writing letters directly to God in an attempt to transcend a life that often seems too much to bear. Her letters span twenty years and record a journey of self-discovery and empowerment through the guiding light of a few strong women and her own implacable will to find harmony with herself and her home.
In The Temple of My Familiar, Celie and Shug from The Color Purple follow the lives of a brilliant cast 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.
Possessing the Secret of Joy portrays Tashi’s tribe, the Olinka, where young girls undergo circumcision as an initiation into the community. Tashi manages to avoid this fate at first, but when pressed by tribal leaders, she submits. Years later, married and living in America as Evelyn Johnson, Tashi’s inner pain emerges. As she questions why such a terrifying, disfiguring sacrifice was required, she sorts through the many levels of subjugation with which she’s been burdened over the years.
The Color Purple / The Temple of My Familiar
Alice Walker
The Temple of My Familiar
Alice Walker
A visionary cast of characters weave together their past and present in a brilliantly intricate tapestry of tales.
It is the story of the dispossessed and displaced, of peoples whose history is ancient and whose future is yet to come. Here we meet Lissie, a woman of many pasts; Arveyda the great guitarist and his Latin American wife who has had to flee her homeland; Suwelo, the history teacher, and his former wife Fanny who has fallen in love with spirits. Hovering tantalisingly above their stories are Miss Celie and Shug, the beloved characters from THE COLOUR PURPLE.
The Third Life Of Grange Copeland
Alice Walker
Alice Walker's first book recounts the lives of three generations growing up in Georgia, where the author herself grew up.
Grange Copeland is a black tenant farmer who is forced to leave his land and family in search of a better future. He heads North but discovers that the racism and poverty he experienced in the South are, in fact, everywhere. When he returns to Georgia years later he finds that his son Brownfield has been imprisoned for the murder of his wife. But hope comes in the form of the third generation as the guardian of the couple's youngest daughter, Grange Copeland, who glimpses a chance of both spiritual and social freedom.
The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker
Alice Walker
The National Book Award– and Pulitzer Prize–winning author’s fascinating and far-reaching conversations with acclaimed writers and thought leaders.
Spanning more than three decades, this collection of fascinating discussions between Alice Walker and renowned writers, leaders, and teachers, explores the changes that Walker has experienced in the world, as well as the change she herself has brought to it.
Compelling literary and cultural figures such as Gloria Steinem, Pema Chödrön, and Howard Zinn represent a different stage in Walker’s artistic and spiritual development. Yet, they also offer an unprecedented look at her career and political growth. Noted literary scholar Rudolph Byrd sets Walker’s work into context with an introductory essay, as well as with a comprehensive annotated bibliography of her writings.
“Read as separate pieces, these conversations offer vivid glimpses of Walker’s energetic personality. Taken together, they offer a sense of her marvelous engagement with her world.” ― Kirkus Reviews
The World Will Follow Joy: Turning Madness into Flowers (New Poems)
Alice Walker
A poetry collection of “playful and crooning lyricism” from the National Book Award– and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple ( Booklist ).
In this dazzling new collection, Alice Walker offers over sixty new poems to incite and nurture contemporary activists. Hailed as a “lavishly gifted writer,” Walker imbues her poetry with evocative images, fresh language, anger, forgiveness, and profound wisdom ( The New York Times ).
Casting her eye toward history, politics, and nature, as well as to world figures such as Jimmy Carter, Gloria Steinem, and the Dalai Lama, she “distills struggles, crises, and tragedies down to bright, singing lessons in living with awareness and joy” ( Booklist ).
By attentively chronicling the conditions of human life today, Walker shows, as ever, her deep compassion, profound spirituality, and necessary political commitments. The poems in The World Will Follow Joy remind us of our human capacity to come together and take action, even in our troubled political times. “Her spirituality, concern for human rights, and almost old-fashioned, determined joyousness run deep and her devoted readers will want to follow her as she turns ‘madness into flowers’” ( Library Journal ).
We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Light in a Time of Darkness
Alice Walker
A New York Times bestseller in hardcover, Pulitzer Prize winner Alice Walker’s We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For was called “stunningly insightful” and “a book that will inspire hope” by Publishers Weekly.Drawing equally on Walker’s spiritual grounding and her progressive political convictions, each chapter concludes with a recommended meditation to teach us patience, compassion, and forgiveness. We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For takes on some of the greatest challenges of our times and in it Walker encourages readers to take faith in the fact that, despite the daunting predicaments we find ourselves in, we are uniquely prepared to create positive change.The hardcover edition of We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For included a national tour that saw standing-room–only crowds and standing ovations. Walker’s clear vision and calm meditative voice—truly "a light in darkness"—has struck a deep chord among a large and devoted readership.
You Can't Keep A Good Woman Down
Alice Walker
Барва пурпурова
Alice Walker
Сілі та Нетті — сестри. Їхнє життя у Джорджії нелегке — мати помирає, а вітчим, якого 14-річна Сілі вважає рідним батьком, вчиняє над нею насилля та віддає заміж. У шлюбі Сілі нещасна, у ньому немає любові, лише чужі діти, а її чоловік кохає іншу. Нетті обіцяє писати сестрі щодня, але листи не надходять. Мине час і Сіллі прочитає ці листи, які від неї приховував чоловік-тиран. У них відкриється страшна правда про батьків та долю її єдиної доньки Олівії, яку в неї силоміць колись відібрали.
Цей сповнений болю та пристрасті роман у листах, за який Еліс Вокер отримала Пулітцерівську премію, розповідає про незламну любов до життя, відвагу бути інакшим, людську вірність та відданість, яка долає відстань і час.
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