Alice Walker

In Gathering Blossoms Under Fire, Walker offers a passionate, intimate record of her intellectual, artistic and political development. She also intimately explores - in real time - her thoughts and feelings as a woman, a writer, an African American, a wife, a daughter, a mother, a lover, a sister, a friend, a citizen of the world. The personal and the political are layered and intertwined in the revealing narrative that emerges from Walker's journals.

A well-published author who has married several times, Kate has lived a life full of exploration. Now, as she begins to feel time creeping up on her, she wants to find a new sense of meaning.

This cherished classic tells the story of Celie. Raped by the man she calls father, her two children taken from her, and forced into an ugly marriage, she has no one to talk to but God, until she meets a woman who offers her love and support.