The Color Purple

"The Color Purple" is the iconic and gripping classic from 1982 by Alice Walker about being an African American woman in the early twentieth-century rural Georgia.

In "The Color Purple" we follow the two sisters Celie and Nettie who grow up with their violent father. Celie is forced into a marriage with an abusive man who one day sets his eyes on Nettie. Now she has to leave and make own life. Throughout the next twenty years they only communicate through letters sharing their hope, grief and endless love for each other.

 

Alice Walker won the Pulitzer Prize in 1983 for this important novel about the pain and abuse but also bravery and companionship of African American women in American history.