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Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965â2000
Top of the pile
83
/100
I Index Overall Rating
Readers
74/100Critics
91/100Scholars
Author:
Alice Walker, Valerie Boyd
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster
Date:
April 12, 2022
The edited journals of Alice Walker are gathered together for the first time. She intimately explores 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 explores an array of events: marching in Mississippi with other foot soldiers of the Civil Rights Movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr.; her marriage to a Jewish lawyer, defying laws that barred interracial marriage in the 1960s South; an early miscarriage; writing her first novel.
What The Reviewers Say
Remarkable for its ambition and radical honesty.
They fully reveal a complex and at times controversial life.
Curious readers will find a great deal of information about Walker and her work in Gathering Blossoms Under Fire. The author writes at length about The Color Purple, which, in her handling and under her gaze, emerges as a far more complex novel than it might initially seem.
Impressive.
