The Temple of My Familiar

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The Temple of My Familiar
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First edition
Author Alice Walker
Publisher Harcourt
Publication date
1989
Pages416 pp.
ISBN 978-0-15-188533-6
OCLC 18781325

The Temple of My Familiar is a 1989 novel by Alice Walker. It is an ambitious and multi-narrative novel containing the interleaved stories of Arveyda, a musician in search of his past; Carlotta, his Latin American wife who lives in exile from hers; Suwelo, a black professor of American History who realizes that his generation of men have failed women; Fanny, his ex-wife about to meet her father for the first time; and Lissie, a vibrant creature with a thousand pasts. [1]

The two lead characters from Alice Walker's The Color Purple, Celie and Shug, act as minor supporting characters in this novel.

References

  1. Kuhne, Dave (1999). African Settings in Contemporary American Novels. Westport, Conn. [u.a.]: Greenwood Press. pp. 71–74. ISBN   978-0-313-31040-9.