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Gathering blossoms under fire, the journals of Alice Walker 1965-2000, edited by Valerie Boyd

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Gathering blossoms under fire

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edited by Valerie Boyd

the journals of Alice Walker 1965-2000

In Gathering Blossoms Under Fire, Walker offers a passionate, intimate record of her intellectual, artistic, and political development. She also intimately explores -- in real time -- her thoughts and feelings as a woman, a writer, an African-American, a wife, a daughter, a mother, a lover, a sister, a friend, a citizen of the world. In an unvarnished and singular voice, she writes about an astonishing array of events: marching in Mississippi with other foot soldiers of the Civil Rights Movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., or "the King," as she called him; her marriage to a Jewish lawyer, partly to defy laws that barred interracial marriage in the 1960s South; an early miscarriage; the birth of her daughter; writing her first novel; the trials and triumphs of the women's movement; erotic encounters and enduring relationships; the ancestral visits that led her to write The Color Purple; winning the Pulitzer Prize; being admired and maligned, sometimes in equal measure, for her work and her activism; burying her mother; and her estrangement from her own daughter. The personal and the political are layered and intertwined in the revealing narrative that emerges from Walker's journals

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