{"product_id":"9781780228273-gathering-blossoms-under-fire","title":"Gathering Blossoms Under Fire","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Journals of Alice Walker\u003cbr\u003eThe unseen journals of Alice Walker - literary icon and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Color Purple\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'These journals are a revelation, a road map and a gift to us all' TAYARI JONES, author of \u003ci\u003eAn American Marriage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Walker writes beautifully about the push and pull of intimacy . You find yourself admiring her idealism, her gift as a writer and her abundant appetite for life' \u003ci\u003eTHE TELEGRAPH\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Color Purple\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGathering Blossoms Under Fire\u003c\/i\u003e presents four decades' worth of personal journals to offer a passionate, intimate record of Alice Walker's intellectual, artistic and political development.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWalker writes in an unvarnished and singular voice about an astonishing array of events: marching in Mississippi with civil rights foot soldiers, marrying a Jewish lawyer and defying 1960s anti-interracial marriage laws, writing her first novel, experiencing the trials and triumphs of the women's movement, being both admired and maligned for her work and activism, burying her mother and estrangement from her daughter. Her journals reveal an inextricable intertwining of the personal and political, exploring her thoughts and feelings in real time as a woman, writer, African American, wife, daughter, mother, lover, sister, friend and citizen of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41033079521377,"sku":"9781780228273","price":16.83,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_31299744.jpg?v=1731573403","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781780228273-gathering-blossoms-under-fire","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}