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050	0	0	_aPS3573.A425 _bZ475 2001b
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100	1		_aWalker, Alice _d, 1944-
245	1	4	_aThe way forward is with a broken heart _c/ Alice Walker
250			_a1st Ballantine Books ed.
260			_aNew York _b: Ballantine Publishing Group _c, 2001, c2000.
300			_axvi, 200 p. _c; 21 cm.
440		0	_aBallantine reader's circle
520			_a"These are the stories that came to me to be told after the close of a magical marriage to an extraordinary man that ended in a less-than-magical divorce. I found myself unmoored, unmated, ungrounded in a way that challenged everything I'd ever thought about human relationships. Situated squarely in that terrifying paradise called freedom, precipitously out on so many emotional limbs, it was as if I had been born; and in fact I was being reborn as the woman I was to become." So says Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker about her beautiful new book, in which "one of the best American writers today" (The Washington Post) gives us superb stories based on rich truths from her own experience. This book begins with a lyrical, autobiographical story of a marriage set in the violent and volatile Deep South during the early years of the civil rights movement. Walker goes on to imagine stories that grew out of the life following that marriage--a life, she writes, that was "marked by deep sea-changes and transitions." These provocative stories showcase Walker's hard-won knowledge of love of many kinds and of the relationships that shape our lives, as well as her infectious sense of humor and joy. Filled with wonder at the power of the life force and of the capacity of human beings to move through love and loss and healing to love again,
600	1	0	_aWalker, Alice _d, 1944-
650		4	_aAfro-American authors _y-20th century _v--Biography
650			_aAfrican American authors _v--Biography
650			_aAfrican American women _v--Fiction
650			_aAfrican Americans _v--Fiction
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