 First edition | |
| Author | Alice Walker |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Harcourt |
Publication date | 1989 |
| Pages | 416 pp. |
| ISBN | 978-0-15-188533-6 |
| OCLC | 18781325 |
The Temple of My Familiar is a 1989 novel byAlice Walker. It is an ambitious andmulti-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.[1]
The two lead characters from Alice Walker'sThe Color Purple, Celie and Shug, act as minor supporting characters in this novel.
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