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. --Jesmyn Ward.
It was a beaten-up paperback in 1999, and it\'s even more battered now.
When I graduated from college, my father gave me Alice Walker\'s In Search of Our Mothers\' Gardens .
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.
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.
Originally published forty years ago, Alice Walker\'s first collection of nonfiction is a dazzling compendium that remains both timely and relevant.
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
