In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens

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Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple, Alice Walker’s collection of essays ranging in topics from personal to political. \”Thoughtful, intelligent, resonant musings.\” — Kirkus ReviewsIn this, her first collection of nonfiction, Alice Walker speaks out as a black woman, writer, mother, and feminist. Among the thirty-six pieces are essays about other writers, accounts of the civil rights movement of the 1960s and the anti-nuclear movement of the 1980s, and a vivid memoir of a scarring childhood injury and her daughter’s healing words.\nDETAILS\nISBN-13: 9780156028646Publisher: AmistadPublication Date: May 17, 2004Pages: 397\n