The Temple of My Familiar by Alice Walker

From the back cover:

"The richness of Alice Walker's new novel is amazing, overwhelming. A hundred themes and subjects spin through it, dozens of characters, a whirl of time and places. None is touched superficially:  all the people are passionate actors and sufferers, and everything they talk about is urgent, a matter truly of life and death. They're like Dostoyevsky's characters, relentlessly  raising the great moral questions and pushing one another towards self-knowledge, honesty, engagement."
- Ursula K. LeGuin, The San Francisco Review of Books

Described by the author as "a romance of the last 500,000 years," The Temple of My Familiar unfolds disquieting truths and mysteries; evils that resound through history; and wonders that attain the power of legend.

"Walker holds a rare place in the history of African-American women writers...The Temple of My Familiar is brilliant."
- Essence

"As a sequel to The Color Purple, The Temple of My Familiar is a major achievement."
- Chicago Tribune

The Temple of My Familiar
by Alice Walker

ISBN: 0671683993
Publisher: Pocket Book (Simon & Schuster)
Publication Date: 1989
Format: Mass Market Paperback, 417 pages
Book Type: New