The Temple of My Familiar
OCLC 18781325 | | |
The Temple of My Familiar is a 1989 novel by Alice Walker. It is an ambitious and multi-narrative novel containing the interleaved stories of Arveyda, a musician in search of his past; Carlotta, his Latin American wife who lives in exile from hers; Suwelo, a black professor of American History who realizes that his generation of men have failed women; Fanny, his ex-wife about to meet her father for the first time; and Lissie, a vibrant creature with a thousand pasts.[1]
The two lead characters from Alice Walker's The Color Purple, Celie and Shug, act as minor supporting characters in this novel.
References
- ISBN 978-0-313-31040-9.
External links
- Jones, Mother (April 1989). "Previews: The Temple of My Familiar". Mother Jones. 14 (3): 53–54. (excerpt)
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