--- product_id: 11029247 title: "The Temple Of My Familiar: The Brilliant Sequel to The Color Purple―A Profoundly Spiritual Novel" price: "$38.66" currency: USD in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.us/products/11029247-the-temple-of-my-familiar-the-brilliant-sequel-to-color store_origin: US region: United States of America --- # The Temple Of My Familiar: The Brilliant Sequel to The Color Purple―A Profoundly Spiritual Novel **Price:** $38.66 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Temple Of My Familiar: The Brilliant Sequel to The Color Purple―A Profoundly Spiritual Novel - **How much does it cost?** $38.66 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.us](https://www.desertcart.us/products/11029247-the-temple-of-my-familiar-the-brilliant-sequel-to-color) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description In this “brilliant” ( Essence ) sequel to The Color Purple , Alice Walker weaves an intricate, rich tapestry of interrelated lives. This edition includes a new Letter to the Reader by Alice Walker. Celie and Shug from The Color Purple subtly shadow the lives of the dozens of astonishing characters in The Temple of My Familiar , all of whom are dealing in some way with the legacy of the African experience in America. From recent African immigrants to a woman who grew up in the mixed-race rainforest communities of South America to Celie’s own granddaughter living in modern-day San Francisco, they must come to terms with the brutal stories of their ancestors in order to confront their own troubled lives. Described by the author as “a romance of the last 500,000 years,” The Temple of My Familiar creates a new mythology from old fables and history, and along with it a profoundly spiritual explanation for centuries of shared African American experience. “The richness of [this] novel is amazing, overwhelming. A hundred themes and subjects spin through it, dozens of characters, a whirl of time and places. None is touched superficially: all the people are passionate actors and sufferers, and everything they talk about is urgent, a matter truly of life and death. They’re like Dostoyevsky’s characters, relentlessly raising the great moral questions and pushing one another towards self-knowledge, honesty, engagement.” —Ursula K. LeGuin Review: A woman who knows her place in the Universe - I read this book in my early 20s and it has remained my all time favorite book. I am about to read it again at the age 65 and am looking forward to experiencing it at this stage of my life. I remember the intricate tapestry she wove with her words, beliefs and thoughts. The connection she made made me visualize from the single celled to the living creatures we are now. To see the everyday magic that is real in our lives seen through the quantum physics of it all! A masterpiece of writing that I have related to many books I have read that relate to those searching for the meaning of life and our power to manifest our dreams through the magic of the power that we all have access to. This book is about religion, spirituality, love, and our oneness with this amazing universe that we are all a part of. An amazing book written by a woman who is clearly in touch with her place in the Iniverse. Review: Get Familiar - This is one of the books that I absolutely cannot live without. It’s not a novel. It’s an oral history. A branch off the family tree. It’s the child sitting between her mothers knees getting her hair greased and parted while listening to her mother’s friends spill everyone else’s business but their own. Sometimes I might read a book that takes me out of my safe zone and into dark and turbulent territory. This is not that book. This is the book I call on to immediately pick me up and take me back to my happy place. If you haven’t already, get familiar with Alice Walker’s The Temple Of My Familiar. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #1,095,559 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #330 in Cultural Heritage Fiction #714 in Magical Realism #1,027 in Classic American Literature | | Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 766 Reviews | ## Images ![The Temple Of My Familiar: The Brilliant Sequel to The Color Purple―A Profoundly Spiritual Novel - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81bezhYk9WL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A woman who knows her place in the Universe *by E***H on June 15, 2019* I read this book in my early 20s and it has remained my all time favorite book. I am about to read it again at the age 65 and am looking forward to experiencing it at this stage of my life. I remember the intricate tapestry she wove with her words, beliefs and thoughts. The connection she made made me visualize from the single celled to the living creatures we are now. To see the everyday magic that is real in our lives seen through the quantum physics of it all! A masterpiece of writing that I have related to many books I have read that relate to those searching for the meaning of life and our power to manifest our dreams through the magic of the power that we all have access to. This book is about religion, spirituality, love, and our oneness with this amazing universe that we are all a part of. An amazing book written by a woman who is clearly in touch with her place in the Iniverse. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Get Familiar *by A***A on August 8, 2021* This is one of the books that I absolutely cannot live without. It’s not a novel. It’s an oral history. A branch off the family tree. It’s the child sitting between her mothers knees getting her hair greased and parted while listening to her mother’s friends spill everyone else’s business but their own. Sometimes I might read a book that takes me out of my safe zone and into dark and turbulent territory. This is not that book. This is the book I call on to immediately pick me up and take me back to my happy place. If you haven’t already, get familiar with Alice Walker’s The Temple Of My Familiar. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ The story is designed to feel familiar *by S***E on October 21, 2012* Alice Walker is a great storyteller, she intertwines two stories with different cultures and similar backgrounds and for many it is confusing to keep up with. She weaves it in a way you always know which character is which and what story you are learning about. I can put myself visually in the situation watching it happen and can't imagine the pain, humiliation, a stripping of your humanity at the hands of people who have no regard for human life. The boats and the conditions were horrendous and those that survived were never the same. I'm still in the middle of the book but I feel with these stories and occurrences the people never forget the treatment of their experience, but they never let it overtake them and inhibit their movement forward. It is a lesson for all of us that the world can throw curveballs and hand you lemons but you make something out of yourself and never stay a victim. She is one of my favorite authors and I never grow tired of reading her books over and over. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.us/products/11029247-the-temple-of-my-familiar-the-brilliant-sequel-to-color](https://www.desertcart.us/products/11029247-the-temple-of-my-familiar-the-brilliant-sequel-to-color) --- *Product available on Desertcart United States of America* *Store origin: US* *Last updated: 2026-07-31*