The Color Purple

In rural Georgia in the early years of the twentieth century, Celie is a poor Black girl who has learned to survive by making herself invisible. Abused by the man she believes to be her father and married off to a cruel widower she knows only as 'Mister,' she pours the truth of her life into letters addressed to God, because there is no one else she dares tell.

Over the decades that follow, Celie's world is slowly and painfully remade by the women around her: her fierce, beloved sister Nettie; the defiant Sofia, who refuses to be broken; and, above all, Shug Avery, the glamorous blues singer whose love teaches Celie that she is worthy of tenderness and capable of joy. Piece by piece, Celie finds her voice, her independence, and her way back to the people she thought she had lost forever.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, Alice Walker's The Color Purple is a landmark of American literature — an unflinching yet ultimately triumphant story of abuse, sisterhood, faith, and the long, hard-won road to selfhood.