TY - BOOK AU - Walker,Alice TI - The color purple / SN - 9780753818923 AV - PS 3573 W177c 2004 U1 - 813/.5 PY - 2004/// CY - London : PB - Phoenix, KW - African Americans KW - Fiction KW - African American women KW - Adult child sexual abuse victims KW - Novela estadounidense KW - Siglo XX KW - Literatura estadounidense KW - Negros KW - Novela KW - Southern States KW - Domestic fiction KW - lcsh KW - Epistolary fiction KW - gsafd N2 - Set in the deep American South between the wars, this is the tale of Celie, a young black girl born into poverty and segregation. Raped repeatedly by the man she calls 'father', she has two children taken away from her, is separated from her beloved sister Nettie, and is trapped into an ugly marriage. But then she meets the glamorous Shug Avery, singer and magic-maker - a woman who has taken charge of her own destiny. Gradually Celie discovers the power and joy of her own spirit, freeing her from her past and reuniting her with those she loves ER -