The Color Purple by Alice Walker

The Color Purple is an epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker that was published in 1982 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction in 1983. It was later adapted into a film and musical with the same title.

Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Color Purple, unapologetically incorporates Southern Black women into world literature. Celie, a young African-American woman growing up in poverty in segregated Georgia, is the protagonist. Celie is separated from her children and her beloved sister Nettie after being raped by the man she refers to as "father", and she is trapped in an abusive marriage. Then she meets Shug, a singer, and magician who teaches her about the power of her own spirit. Walker's novel does not soften its blows, but it is brave enough to believe in forgiveness and hope.

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