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The Temple of My Familiar

The Temple of My Familiar

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.


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Alice Walker photo
Alice Walker photo

“What you hope for, you also fear.”

Source: The Temple of My Familiar

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