The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1982)

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The Color Purple is a novel written in the form of multiple letters, by Alice Walker and published in 1982. Alice Walker is an American author and social worker, she won the Pultizer Prize for Fiction in 1983. She was a feminist, and she has an awful lot of writings promoting women’s independence. The Color Purple tells the story of an African-American woman living in the 1930s Southern United States. It talks about the struggle of black people and especially black women in that period of time. This novel was widely censored for its explicit violent content.

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This is the tale of a 14-year-old poor girl named Celie, more precisely this is the tale of her suffering. The young girl is constantly abused both physically and sexually by her father, Alphonso. The sexual abuse resulted, more than once, in pregnancy which her father tries to hide by abducting the infants. She later gets married to a widowed man called Mister, Celie thought she finally escaped her toxic home, only she landed in an even worse one. Bother her husband and his kids mistreat her, abuse her mentally and physically to the point where she couldn’t take it anymore. The Color Purple is a beautiful work of literature that sheds light on some of the most dangerous problems of society.