The Crisis, September 1st, 2004
ALSO OF INTEREST A Novel Approach to a "Memoir" Now is the Time to Open Your Heart By Alice Walker (Random House, $24.95) Alice Walker has been known to refashion the term "novel" in her own image, and she continues in this vein with a book that, although crafted in third person, reads like a memoir. In an explanatory paragraph, Walker writes: "This novel is a memorial to the psychic explorer [Kate Nelson ] might have become." Thus, the book's protagonist shares the name of Walker's murdered paternal grandmother, as well as many of Walker's own sentiments, as she embarks on a spiritual ody...
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