In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose

In this, her first collection of nonfiction, Alice Walker speaks out as ablack woman, writer, mother, and feminist in thirty-six pieces rangingfrom the personal to the political. Among the contents are essays aboutother writers, accounts of the civil rights movement of the 1960s and theantinuclear movement of the 1980s, and a vivid memoir of a scarringchildhood injury and her daughter’s healing words.

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Black Stories Matter

Format: Paperback
ISBN-13/EAN: 9780156028646
ISBN-10: 0156028646
Pages: 416
Price: $16.99
Publication Date: 05/17/2004
Carton Quantity: 32
Age(s): 14,15,16
Grade(s): 9-12
Reading Level:
- Lexile Reading Level 1160L

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Alice Walker

ALICE WALKER is an internationally celebrated writer, poet, and activist whose books include seven novels, four collections of short stories, four children's books, and volumes of essays and poetry. She won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction in 1983 and the National Book Award.

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PRAISE FOR IN SEARCH OF OUR MOTHERS’GARDENS
“Reflects not only the ideas but a life that has . . . breathed color, sound, and soul
into fiction and poetry—and into our lives as well.”
—SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

Format: Paperback
ISBN-13/EAN: 9780156028646
ISBN-10: 0156028646
Pages: 416
Price: $16.99
Publication Date: 05/17/2004
Carton Quantity: 32
Age(s): 14,15,16
Grade(s): 9-12
Reading Level:
- Lexile Reading Level 1160L