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Carol
Feb 16, 2010 rated it it was amazing
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This book is amazing! Celie is a beautifully honest, sincere and heartbreaking character. This epistolary novel is set in the 1930s poverty stricken American South. Naive Celie is only 14 years old when her self-centered "Pa" rapes her; she ends up pregnant twice (by "Pa" and the man he forced her to marry). Pa takes the babies away from her, and she never sees them again. Celie's job in the home is to cook, clean, and take care of her siblings who she loves dearly. In reality, Celie is a powerl ...more
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