![]() ![]() Walker's vehicles include Arveyda, a guitarist ("Artists, he now understood, were simply messengers") Carlotta, his Latin-American wife Suwelo, a history teacher ("His generation of men had failed women.) Fanny, his former wife Lissie, who can remember her past lives Hal, her lover and a group of secondary characters and wisdom figures-including, from The Color Purple, Miss Celie and Miss Shug (a pamphlet, "The Gospel According to Shug," changes the lives of all those who read it). Richly told and full of wonder, it's not so much a novel as an interlinked tapestry of oral tellings that ranges through time and history too often, though, its overbearing message becomes its medium. ![]() Walker follows the vast critical and popular success of The Color Purple (1982) with a sprawling mixture of feminism and spirituality centered on six characters searching for their identities and roots. ![]()
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