Book description
It is the worst of times. It is the best of times. Try as I might I
cannot find a more appropriate opening for this volume' Terrorist
attacks, natural disasters such as the Asian tsunami and the flooding of
New Orleans, the reality of global warming, ongoing warfare in Iraq and
the de-stabilisation of the Middle East - sometimes the future can seem
bleak, if not frightening. Yet this is not a pessimistic book. Taking a
line from the poet June Jordan who said 'We are the Ones we have been
waiting for' - Alice Walker reasserts the power of the individual in
making political change happen. In short, we can 'fix things' by
focusing on what we share as human beings rather than what separates us.
Looking at subjects as diverse as sending our children to war, the
rich/poor divide, Nature, the I Ching, modern gender roles, women in the
miltary, and even a piece on her dog Marley, Alice Walker looks towards
an optimistic view of the future through a more intuitive understanding
of the self and the world around us. Alice Walker won the Pulitzer
prize and the American Book Award for The Color Purple. She is the
author of many bestselling novels, essays and collections of poetry
including Meridian, By the Light of My Father's Smile and The Third Life
of Grange Copeland.
