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About this audiobook
In this groundbreaking classic essay collection, Alice Walker speaks out as a Black woman, writer, mother, and feminist on topics ranging from the personal to the political.
Originally published forty years ago, Alice Walker’s first collection of nonfiction is a dazzling compendium that remains both timely and relevant. In these thirty-six essays, Walker contemplates her own work and that of other writers, considers the civil rights movement of the 1960s and the anti-nuclear movement of the 1980s, and writes vividly and courageously about a scarring childhood injury. Throughout, Walker explores the theories and practices of feminism, incorporating what she calls the “womanist” tradition of black women—insights that are vital to understanding our lives and society today.
“When I graduated from college, my father gave me Alice Walker’s In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens. It was a beaten-up paperback in 1999, and it’s even more battered now.” —Jesmyn Ward
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Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.4 (12K)
Includes Goodreads, StoryGraph, Amazon, LibraryThing
GenrePsychology, Literary Classics
Length14 hrs 9 mins
Narrated byLynnette R. Freeman
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateNov 28, 2023
LanguageEnglish
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