The Color Purple

Kathy Miller
Feb 12, 2024
1 min read

Updated: Aug 30, 2025

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.

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