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.