Walker, Alice

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Her blue body everything we know

earthling poems, 1965-1990 complete
2003
A collection of Walker's new and unpublished poems with all her earlier poems, offering a historical perspective on the political and spiritual issues of the last three decades.

Meridian

2003
As the old rules of Southern society collapse, Meridian fights a lonely battle to reaffirm her own humanity and that of her people.

Finding the green stone

1991
After saying unkind things to family and friends, Johnny loses both his green stone and his interest in life, and he recovers them only when he discovers love in his heart.

By the light of my father's smile

a novel
1998
Susannah and her family move to the Sierras in Mexico, and while they are there, their lives are forever changed by the Mundo people who live there.

Her blue body everything we know

earthling poems, 1965-1990 complete
1991
A collection of Walker's new and unpublished poems with all her earlier poems, offering a historical perspective on the political and spiritual issues of the last three decades.

The color purple

1985
Tells the story of two 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.".

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 : a memoir
2011
Recounts the author's experiences caring for a flock of chickens on a farm north of San Francisco, documenting her personal discovery, political commitment, and the joys of relating to animals.

The way forward is with a broken heart

2000
Twentieth-century African-American author Alice Walker presents a memoir of her marriage to a white man in early civil rights-era Misissippi, and several short stories inspired by the marriage's initial magic and its eventual disintegration.

The color purple

a novel
1982
Tells the story of two 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.".

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