The Temple of My Familiar

The Temple of My Familiar is a 1989 novel by Alice Walker. It is an ambitious and multi-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 Temple of My Familiar

First edition
Author	Alice Walker
Publisher	Harcourt
Publication date	1989
Pages	416 pp.
ISBN	978-0-15-188533-6
OCLC	18781325

The two lead characters from Alice Walker's The Color Purple, Celie and Shug, act as minor supporting characters in this novel.

References

1. Kuhne, Dave (1999). African Settings in Contemporary American Novels. Westport, Conn. [u.a.]: Greenwood Press. pp. 71–74. ISBN 978-0-313-31040-9.

External links

• Jones, Mother (April 1989). "Previews: The Temple of My Familiar". Mother Jones. 14 (3): 53–54. (excerpt)