TheTemple of My Familiar

Alice Walker

The Temple of My Familiar is a 1989 novel by Alice Walker. It is an ambitious and multi-narrative novel containing the interleaved stories of Arveyda, a musician in search of his past; Carlotta, his Latin American wife who lives in exile from hers; Suwelo, a black professor of American History who realizes that his generation of men have failed women; Fanny, his ex-wife about to meet her father for the first time; and Lissie, a vibrant creature with a thousand pasts.

status	Copy #1 (6508): in
genre	Literature and Fiction » Magical Realism
publisher	Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
publish date	1989
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