OSHER 20 - The Color Purple: An American Treasure

Winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, this astonishing novel by Alice Walker appears on the ALA list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books (#17) -- for explicit content, particularly violence. However, it is also the story of a sister love that surpasses time, distance, and silence. It is about the indomitable power of the love of life. We will also become better acquainted with the remarkable woman who wrote it.