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The Color Purple
The Color Purple
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This is one of those books that everyone should read in their life time and I am so glad that I did. This book definitely made my heart break in two.

"Taking place mostly in rural Georgia, the story focuses on the life of women of color in the southern United States in the 1930s, addressing numerous issues including their exceedi ...more
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