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Gathering Blossoms Under Fire

The Journals of Alice Walker

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Gathering Blossoms Under Fire

By: Alice Walker, Valerie Boyd
Narrated by: Alice Walker, Aunjanue Ellis, Janina Edwards
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 'These journals are a revelation, a road map and a gift to us all' TAYARI JONES, author of An American Marriage

'Walker writes beautifully about the push and pull of intimacy . . . You find yourself admiring her idealism, her gift as a writer and her abundant appetite for life' THE TELEGRAPH

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple, Gathering Blossoms Under Fire presents four decades' worth of personal journals to offer a passionate, intimate record of Alice Walker's intellectual, artistic and political development.

Walker writes in an unvarnished and singular voice about an astonishing array of events: marching in Mississippi with civil rights foot soldiers, marrying a Jewish lawyer and defying 1960s anti-interracial marriage laws, writing her first novel, experiencing the trials and triumphs of the women's movement, being both admired and maligned for her work and activism, burying her mother and estrangement from her daughter. Her journals reveal an inextricable intertwining of the personal and political, exploring her thoughts and feelings in real time as a woman, writer, African American, wife, daughter, mother, lover, sister, friend and citizen of the world.©2022 Alice Walker and Valerie Boyd (P)2022 Orion Publishing Group Limited Art & Literature Authors Women Marriage

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I am grateful to Alice Walker, for her braveqy to publish her personal journals, for giving a white Yorkshireman an insight into her life, thoughts and feelings. I also have a long injured eye, how I can connect with Alice's feelings regarding her own injured eye.
I highly recommend this book, It's a 40 year trip along the life road of a wonderful creative soul.

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Pure Bliss and inspiring to bear witness to a life well and fully lived. Expertly read by Miss Ellis.

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