Service95 Recommends is the home of the books we love and reviews from our contributors. The Color Purple by Alice Walker is an education in prejudice and patriarchy, a classic that everyone must read.
What Malorie Says: “This was the first novel I ever read written by a Black author about Black characters. It was thanks to this book that I even began to wonder if maybe, just maybe, I could be an author myself. The Color Purple is a story that grips from the first page to the last and celebrates the resilience, humour and joy of Black women relationships.”
What They Say: “The Color Purple is a work to stand beside literature for any time and any place. It needs no category other than the fact that it is superb” — Rita Mae Brown
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Malorie Blackman is an award-winning writer of YA and Children’s Fiction and the author of Dua’s Monthly Read for July 2024, Noughts & Crosses
