ONE OF THE BBC ''100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD''
''A lush celebration of all that it means to be a black female''
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
''A story about Black women living in the intersections of racialized and gendered violence, who find liberation through community with each other. A brutal and beautiful novel''
Brit Bennett
''Every single time I read this book, I walk away as a slightly better person than I was when I picked it up''
Tayari Jones
''I think that The Color Purple was the first book that made me think that I could try to be a writer - or that made me aware that a young black woman from the South could write about the South''
Jesmyn Ward
''I got the book and read it, in one day, when it came out. And then I went back, the next day, and bought every copy they had''
Oprah Winfrey
Sisters Celie and Nettie share the pain and struggle of growing up a
