An epistolary novel about oppression, abuse and the power of love. Celie is an African-American teenager who grows up in poverty with her younger sister in a small village in Georgia and is raped by her father Alphonso at the age of fourteen. Living around abusive men, Celie builds relationships with other black women and eventually finds a lover in a woman named Shug. While her sister, Nettie, moved to Africa, Celie and her girlfriend move to Memphis where Celie starts a successful tailoring business.

Novel · United States · 1982