- African American women, Biography, Daughters, Family
"When Mel Leventhal married Alice Walker during the civil rights movement in the 1960s, his mother declared him dead and sat shiva for him. By the time her parents divorced, when Rebecca was eight, the excitement of the milieu that had brought her parents together and produced a "Movement baby" had died down and the foundation that gave her life meaning dropped out from under her.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and character-led.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Rebecca Walker
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 322
- Publisher
- Riverhead Books, Pearson Education, Limited, Riverhead Trade
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781573221696
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