by Alice Walker · Pocket Books · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9780671789428
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«Possessing the Secret of Joy» is Alice Walker's novel, published by Pocket Books in paperback (304 pages, in English).
The novel follows Tashi, an African woman who, as an adult in North America, carries the trauma of a genital mutilation she underwent in her youth out of loyalty to her people's customs. Between therapy and ancestral myths, she tries to recover her identity and her capacity to feel, until anger drives her to act.
Third installment of «The Color Purple Collection»; it is not a sequel to «The Color Purple» or «The Temple of My Familiar», but it picks up a character barely sketched in those books.
For readers of literary and feminist fiction interested in the tensions between tradition, identity, and women's rights.
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which she was awarded for her novel The Color Purple. Over the span of her career, Walker has published seventeen novels and short story collections, twelve non-fiction works, and collections of essays and poetry.
