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This novel features a little more than images of blossoms, eggplants, which bizarre McDonald's personality. It celebrities Celie, a poor black woman from the rural South, and follows her through about thirty decades of her life--out of repeated sexual abuse by her father as a young woman to even more abuse in the hands of her husband as an adult.

If there's one thing that becomes evident from the first couple of chapters of this book, it is that sometimes life just is not fair. Fortunately, with the assistance of some dear friends and her own indomitable spirit, Celie finally grows stronger and finds her own liberty.

It is a happy ending to an otherwise fairly extreme and moving story. So moving, Actually, that the book won writer Alice Walker the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction along with the National Book Award at 1983.

However, regardless of the undeniable impact the book has had on audiences around the world, it still is still one of the most commonly banned books even today--over thirty years later being released. The reasons? Homosexuality, offensive speech, and other sexually explicit material (gasp! ).

We don't know about you, but any book that gets folks like Nancy Grace all riled to get a good three decades have to be pretty damn great. Steven Spielberg even turned it into a film, starring none other than Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah. Yes, the Oprah. If Oprah Requires, you know you're gont enjoy it.

If you're ready to handle The Color Purple's more older and debilitating components, you'll be rewarded with a powerful story about one girl's evolution from an injured soul to some happy and free soul.

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