The Temple of My Familiar
Suwelo inherits his uncle's house in Baltimore and sits listening to two old people, Miss Lissie and Mr Hal, while his marriage to Fanny comes apart at a distance. Lissie remembers her previous lives in order: as a woman in Africa before the slavers, as a lion, once as a white man. Walker subtitled it a romance and ran the story across continents and millennia, picking up characters from her earlier books.
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- companion to ↑ The Color Purple
- ↓ Possessing the Secret of Joy
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