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Possessing the Secret of Joy


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An American woman struggles with the genital mutilation she endured equally a kid in Africa in a New York Times bestseller "as compelling every bit The Color Royal" (San Francisco Relate).

In Tashi's tribe, the Olinka, young girls undergo female genital mutilation as an initiation into the customs. Tashi manages to avoid this fate at commencement, but when pressed by tribal leaders, she submits. Years later, married and living in America as Evelyn Johnson, Tashi's inner pain emerges. As she questions why such a terrifying, disfiguring sacrifice was required, she sorts through the many levels of subjugation with which she's been burdened over the years.

In Possessing the Undercover of Joy, Alice Walker exposes the abhorrent do of female genital mutilation in an unforgettable, moving novel.

This ebook features an illustrated biography of Alice Walker including rare photos from the author's personal collection.

Possessing the Secret of Joy is the third book in the Color Purple Collection, which also includes The Colour Purple and The Temple of My Familiar.

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Alice Walker (b. 1944), one of the United states of america' preeminent writers, is an award-winning author of novels, stories, essays, and poetry. In 1983, Walker became the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction with her novel The Color Purple, which too won the National Book Accolade. Her other novels include The Third Life of Grange Copeland, Pinnacle, The Temple of My Familiar, and Possessing the Hole-and-corner of Joy. In her public life, Walker has worked to address bug of injustice, inequality, and poverty every bit an activist, teacher, and public intellectual.


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  • Alice Walker is such a beautiful writer. This volume begins with Adam and Olivia, children of black missionaries, meeting Tashi, an African child in an African area chosen Olinka, which holds very traditional values. What "traditional" means in this case is that female genital mutilation is considered mandatory for girls who promise to marry a adept man and accept a respectable place in Olinkan club. The book details the lives of these iii people as they abound to adulthood and struggle with Tashi's trauma from her upbringing. Her life, her personal choices, made on a background of trauma and hurting, lead u.s. to a place of deep insight regarding the treatment of women, the violence of colonialism and the lack of healing of the supposedly free society. There is violence hither but also intense sweet and love. Alice Walker has been a potent abet of women's rights and education to end the do of FGM. I have such admiration for her and her incredible writing. The aching want to end suffering comes through and so clearly and so beautifully.

  • This volume was written in the same style as The Colour Majestic, with each section being written past a different character. I enjoyed that aspect, because it gives each one a phonation of their own, & a unique perspective on the events in the book. This book centers on Tashi, also called Evelyn, who married Adam, & was briefly seen in The Color Purple. It centers effectually the barbaric practice of female person genital mutilation, or, female circumcision, which Tashi had washed, & which killed her sister Dura. Information technology drove Tashi insane, & one time she & Adam returned to America, she was in & out of Waverly Asylum. On her return to Africa, she searches out M'Lissa, the "tsunga", or female witch doctor, who was too the tribe midwife & delivered Tashi when she was a newborn. When M'Lissa is establish dead, Tashi goes on trial for it. The story is sad, and gives graphic details on what is washed to these poor girls over in that location, & how. It also touches on an interesting theory of how AIDS came to be the epidemic it is in Africa, which is the introduction of a contaminated batch of smallpox vaccine, since Adam is a medico.All in all, a powerful, haunting story

  • This was a fantastic book! I loved A Color Majestic, but I liked this one even better! I'm currently reading two other books that coincidentally mention female circumcision. I liked how the writer bankrupt it into the viewpoints of the different characters. However I think I would take liked it better if she had used an actual Africn hamlet instead of a fictional ane.

  • Book on an African woman and her circumcision as a child and how it affected the residuum of her life.

  • This novel focusses on the story of Tashi, a pocket-size character in The Colour Imperial, who left Africa for a new life in America, and explores the tragic consequences of the female initiation anniversary.This book is written from a number of dissimilar points of view, and information technology switches very quickly, within a few pages. At outset, this makes the book very confusing, as it is hard to see how the different characters chronicle to each oterh, simply gradually this book settles downwards. The story is well thought-out, and the characters are very bright, but yet I was still left feeling a bit disappointed. Not sure why - possibly I merely expected more than this volume was able to give, but unfortunately, despite the sometimes harrowing scenes, I was left feeling that a lot of it was just skimming the surface. For me, it didn't become every bit deep every bit information technology potentially could have washed I suppose...

  • This volume should be required reading for everywoman. It had a profound impact on my life and how I view the issue of gential mutilation.

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