TY  - BOOK
AU  - Walker,Alice
TI  - The color purple
SN  - 9780753818923
U1  - 813 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - London
PB  - Phoenix
KW  - African American women
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Adult child sexual abuse victims
KW  - Abused wives
KW  - Southern States
N2  - Set in the deep American south between the wars, this is the classic tale of Celie, a young poor black girl. Raped repeatedly by her father, she loses two children and then is married off to a man who treats her no better than a slave. She is separated from her sister Nettie and dreams of becoming like the glamorous Shug Avery, a singer and rebellious black woman who has taken charge of her own destiny. Gradually Celie discovers the support of women that enables her to leave the past behind and begin a new life
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