Possessing the Secret of Joy

By Alice Walker

Categories: Literature & Fiction

Alice Walker's 1992 novel about Tashi, an African woman from The Color Purple, and the lasting trauma of female genital cutting.

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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.”