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The Color Purple
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Start date
February 1, 2013
Finish date
February 28, 2013

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Kara
May 30, 2013 rated it really liked it
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This book really surprised me. I didn't enjoy it at all at the start, but then I really got into it.

It's written in letters. Letters to god, letters between sisters. All letters. And at first, it made me feel far away from the story, but once I got used to it, I loved it.

The book deals with tough issues: race, rape, religion, sexuality. I wasn't expecting that from this book at all. I thought it'd be one of those fluffy, feel good books. In a way it was, but it also didn't shy away from anythin
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