The Color Purple by Alice Walker is a powerful and moving novel about the struggles of African-American women in the early 20th century. It follows the story of Celie, a young woman who is abused and oppressed by the men in her life. Through her journey, she finds strength,
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The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker that won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction.