Classics Literary 1983

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Published in Spanish as El Color Púrpura

Beautifully imagined and deeply compassionate, this is the story of two sisters--one a missionary in Africa and the other a child wife living in the South--who sustain their loyalty to and trust in…

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What it is

Told in letters, diaries or messages · it leaves you shaken

What happens in it

Letters and diaries

Before you pick it up

Is it for you?

It's for you if…

  • you don't mind a good cry
  • you like to close a book feeling better
  • you want a book that doesn't look away

Maybe not if…

  • you'd rather skip the hard scenes

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