Alice Walker · 1982 · exile

Alice Walker's 1982 epistolary novel. In rural early-20th-century Georgia, Celie endures abuse and separation from her sister Nettie, writing letters to God and to Nettie across the years. Celie finds herself in Memphis making a life of her own, while Nettie's letters arrive from an African missionary village among the Olinka - two sisters an ocean apart, until they are reunited at last.

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   Georgia

   The rural farm country where Celie is married off to the cruel Mister and separated from her beloved sister Nettie, writing her letters to God from a life of hardship.

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   Memphis

   Where Celie leaves Mister and, with Shug, builds an independent life sewing trousers - finding her own voice and means for the first time.

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   Olinka village

   The West African missionary village where Nettie lives among the Olinka people for decades, her letters home the thread that keeps the sisters bound across the ocean.