The Temple of My Familiar

Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple, presents an ambitious narrative spanning half a million years of human history. Through interconnected stories of Lissie, a woman of many reincarnated pasts, Arveyda the musician and his displaced wife, and Suwelo the history teacher, the novel weaves together the lives of the dispossessed and displaced into a brilliant tapestry. This visionary work explores the ancient roots and uncertain futures of peoples whose stories demand to be told.