The Temple of My Familiar

In a book she calls 'a romance of the last 500,000 years', Alice Walker strikes a rich vein of contemporary issues and relationships. Arveyda, a musician in search of his past, and Carlotta, his Latin American wife who lives in exile from hers. Suwelo, a black professor of American history who realizes that his generation of men have failed women, and Fanny, his ex-wife, soon to meet her father for the first time. Lissie, a vibrant creature with a thousand pasts and a homing instinct for Hal, her life's companion. Through these lives are explored the central themes of this inspirational novel: colonialism, oppression and spiritual recovery.