A collection of essays by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker, in which she discusses the roots of her cultural, political, and spiritual activism, and offers her opinions on a wide range of public and private issues.
An African American tenant farmer flees Georgia for the North. Years later, he returns home to face his wife's death, his son's imprisonment, and a last chance at personal salvation.
Tells the story of two African-American sisters: Nettie, a missionary in Africa, and Celie, a child-wife living in the south, in the medium of their letters to each other and in Celie's case, the desperate letters she begins, "Dear God.".