TY - BOOK AU - Walker, Alice, TI - The color purple SN - 9780544805026 AV - PS3573 .A42 .W35 1982 PY - 2015///] CY - Boston PB - Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, KW - African American women KW - fiction N1 - "First published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970"-- Title page verso N2 - Beautifully imagined and deeply compassionate, this is the story of two sisters--one a missionary in Africa and the other a child wife living in the South--who sustain their loyalty to and trust in each other across time, distance, and silence. This classic novel of American literature is rich with passion, pain, inspiration, and an indomitable love of life. -- provided by publisher ER -