The Color Purple in Historical Fiction — the list

This week’s list includes The Color Purple, from Alice Walker. Press play and stay for every chapter.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Recording Award A powerful cultural touchstone of modern American literature, The Color Purple depicts the lives of African American women in early twentieth-century rural Georgia. Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other across time, distance and silence. Through a series of letters spanning twenty years, first from Celie to God, then the sisters to each other despite the unknown, the novel draws reader

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