The inspiration for the new film adaptation of the Tony-winning Broadway musicalAlice Walker’s iconic modern classic, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book AwardA powerful cultural touchstone of modern literature, The Color Purple depicts the lives of African American women in early twentieth-century rural Georgia. Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other across time, distance, and silence.Through a series o