As this epistolary novel unfolds, the lives and experiences of Black women living in the American South reveal the power of female relationships, and the complicated dynamics of race, sexuality, and violence. When Celie is separated from her sister Nettie and forced to marry a cruel and abusive farmer, her letters to both God and Nettie sustain her hope for her sister’s future, despite the barriers of distance, time, and silence. In the opening pages of Alice Walker’s classic 1982 novel The Color Purple, we read a letter written by 14-year-old Celie, detailing the sexual abuse she experiences by the man she calls ‘father’. Maybe you can give me a sign letting me know what is happening to me." "You better not never tell nobody but God.
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