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The Color Purple

  • Writer: Kathy Miller
    Kathy Miller
  • Feb 12, 2024
  • 1 min read

Alice Walker, 1982

Date Read: 2/5/24


This novel is about queer female sexuality, and about women being used for men's needs. It starts with a little girl being raped repeatedly by her stepfather. That's not even close to the harshest part of the novel.


I think the sexual parts were really adventurous even for the 1980s, particularly the Sapphic parts.


All in all I think this is an incredible novel. Very much in the vein of Toni Morrison.


Length: 286 in paperback

Rereadability: yes

Classic: pulitzer prize and all, yes

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