The Color Purple Format:Paperback This charming and bittersweet coming-of-age

This charming and bittersweet coming-of-age story featuring two girls of color falling in love is part To All the Boys I've Loved Before and part Simon vs

and devastating in its critique of our own failures of inclusion

threatens to spill her secrets to her family and uses her body to commit felonies

it is the unabashed acceptance of one's "outlaw" standing in a predominantly heterosexual world

Forced to choose between their duty and their hearts

The Color Purple Format:Paperback This charming and bittersweet coming-of-ageWinner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Alice Walker's iconic modern classic is now a Penguin Book. 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