It challenges our preconceptions while offering alternative worldviews in areas such as race, religion, patriarchy and the like.Īs it’s Walker, it’s only expected that political statements are made. Walker educates by giving us facts and opinions on literature, race, gender, feminism among other topics. To me, this book is more than a story, it’s an education and it’s also a challenge. The Temple of my Familiar is such a rich, multi-layered story, the kind that you can ruminate on days after you’ve finished reading it, as I’m doing now. It’s quite an intimidating feat to review this book. They are difficult barriers to cross, to get to others, to get to closed-down parts of ourselves.” - Alice Walker, The Temple of my Familiar “Long will we remember pain, but the pain itself, as it was at that point of intensity that made us feel as if we must die of it, eventually vanishes.
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