In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Prose

In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens is a powerful and thought-provoking collection of essays from Alice Walker, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple.

This ebook features an illustrated biography of Alice Walker including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.

In these essays, Walker explores her own work and that of other writers, accounts of the civil rights movement of the 1960s and the antinuclear movement of the 1980s, and a vivid, courageous memoir of a scarring childhood injury.

Throughout the volume, Walker incorporates what she calls the "womanist" tradition of black women, offering a unique perspective on feminism and the struggles of oppression.

This collection is a must-read for anyone interested in Alice Walker's work or the history of the civil rights movement.