TY - BOOK AU - Walker, Alice, TI - The color purple SN - 9780704350168 AV - PS3573.A425 C6 1986 U1 - 813/.54 19 PY - 1983/// CY - London PB - Women's Press KW - Sexually abused children KW - Fiction KW - African American women KW - Adult child sexual abuse victims KW - Sisters KW - Abused wives KW - Southern States KW - Fiction in English KW - American writers, 1945- - Texts KW - Domestic fiction N1 - Originally published: New York : Harcourt Brace, 1982 N2 - This book tells the story of Celie. Raped by the man she calls father, her two children taken from her and forced into an ugly marriage, she pours out her feelings in letters to God, but has no one to talk to, until she meets a woman who offers love and support. ER -