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Book Review of The Color Purple

The Color Purple
The Color Purple
Author: Alice Walker
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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Helpful Score: 1


I avoided reading this book until now because I thought it would be difficult and depressing. It was depressing at times, but it wasn't nearly as difficult as I had expected. (I still haven't figured out if "her sister doctor" means "her sister's doctor" or "her sister the doctor," but the former makes more sense in context.) The only aspect of the book I'm still trying to puzzle out is the characters' changing relationships. Like musical chairs players, every character kept running off with every other character's spouse, and I wasn't expecting that.