
The Color Purple
Alice Walker (1982)
“A Black woman in the Jim Crow South finds her voice, her God, and herself through letters no one was ever supposed to read.”
EraContemporary / Civil Rights Aftermath
Pages295
Difficulty★★★☆☆ Challenging
AP Appearances9
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