THE TEMPLE OF MY FAMILIAR

San Dieogo New York London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1989. Limited Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Slipcase. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Signed by Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author (THE COLOR PURPLE) Alice Walker on limitation page at rear of book in black fountain ink. Of this signed , limited, slipcased edition, this is #422/500. As new, in yellow cloth boards with gilt decoration debossed on front cover, and repeated in silver on front of pristine ivory cloth slipcase. THE TEMPLE OF MY FAMILIAR is the second book in the /Color Purple/ series, which was followed by POSSESSING THE SECRETS OF JOY. In THE TEMPLE OF MY FAMILIAR,Celie and Shug from THE COLOR PURPLE subtly shadow the lives of dozens of characters, all dealing in some way with the legacy of the African experience in America. From recent African immigrants, to a woman who grew up in the mixed-race rainforest communities of South America, to Celie's own granddaughter living in modern-day San Francisco, all must come to understand the brutal stories of their ancestors to come to terms with their own troubled lives. As Walker follows these astonishing characters, she weaves a new mythology from old fables and history, a profoundly spiritual explanation for centuries of shared African-American experience.