Gathering Blossoms Under Fire

Gathering Blossoms Under FireFor the first time, the edited journals of Alice Walker are gathered together to reflect the complex, passionate, talented, and acclaimed Pulitzer Prize winner of The Color Purple. She intimately explores her thoughts and feelings as a woman, a writer, an African American, a wife, a daughter, a mother, a lover, a sister, a friend, a citizen of the world. Hardcover, 506 pages. Edited by Valerie Boyd.

Drawn heavily from the Gershwin’s letters held in our Manuscript Division

Over the course of the night the rabbi calls up the spirits of legendary rabbis from centuries past for advice on what to do

pipe cleaners

social change

he will sleep FOREVER

It explores the way that he balanced Christianity with traditional African beliefs

utilizing humor and drama

George Takei is four years old when his world changes forever

and judges

Polyester insert included

the two of them forge a connection that will follow her all the way to the front lines of battle: for her brother

exploring what it means to live on an endangered planet