The Color Purple
A Literary Fiction Series by Alice Walker
The Color Purple is the first book of the The Color Purple series
FIRST PUBLISHED 1982
NUMBER OF BOOKS 3 books
This series is for you if you're into...
- Epistolary survival and self-discovery
- Black women finding strength in the Deep South
- Music-fueled transformation through unlikely friendship
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