"The Color Purple" by Alice Walker

Published in 1982

In this Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award for Fiction-winner, Walker paints the horrifying yet realistic account of a young black woman named Celie who faces disturbing abuse — both physical, mental, and incestuous — at the hands of the men in her life.

"The Color Purple" is set in the southern U.S. in the '30s, and follows Celie as she learns how to survive and let go of the past after discovering that she is somebody worth loving.

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