Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning

By Alice Walker

Categories: Literature & Fiction

Alice Walker's 1979 collection of poems takes its title from the words her mother spoke to her father at his funeral. The poems explore love, separation and forgiveness, the end of a marriage, family and memory, and the political struggles of Black Americans and of women. Written in a direct, intimate voice, they move between personal grief and a broader call for healing and justice.

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• Hillary Clinton: “I will read anything by Laura Hillenbrand, Walter Isaacson, Barbara Kingsolver, John le Carré, John Grisham, Hilary Mantel, Toni Morrison, Anna Quindlen and Alice Walker.”