TY - BOOK AU - Walker,Alice TI - The color purple T2 - Harvest book SN - 0156028352 (pbk.) AV - PS3573.A425 C6 2003 U1 - 813/.54 22 PY - 2003/// CY - Orlando, Fla. PB - Harcourt KW - Abused wives KW - Fiction KW - Adult child sexual abuse victims KW - African American women KW - Sisters KW - sears KW - Domestic fiction KW - Epistolary fiction KW - Wife abuse KW - Southern States KW - lcsh KW - gsafd N1 - Originally published: 1970; Wilson's Fiction; Wilson's Senior High School; Young Adult; Follett Library Resources N2 - Tells the story of two African-American sisters: Nettie, a missionary in Africa, and Celie, a child-wife living in the south, in the medium of their letters to each other and in Celie's case, the desperate letters she begins, "Dear God." ER -