Possessing the Secret of Joy
Tashi of the Olinka submits as a young woman to the cutting her people require, out of loyalty to a culture under colonial pressure, and carries the injury into a marriage in America and a name that is not hers. Decades of breakdown put her in front of a Swiss analyst and then an African American one, trying to reach what she cannot say. Walker followed a minor figure out of her Pulitzer book into the practice she campaigned against for years.
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- continues ↑ The Color Purple
- companion to ↑ The Temple of My Familiar
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