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  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

  Excerpt from Orlando, copyright 1928 by Virginia Woolf, renewed 1956 by Leonard Woolf, reprinted by permission of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.

  Excerpt from “Give Me Something” by Yoko Ono, © 1980 by Lenono Music. All rights controlled and administered by SBK Blackwood Music Inc. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Used by permission.

  copyright © 1989 by Alice Walker

  cover design by Connie Gabbert

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  Table of Contents

  Cover

  Title Page

  Dedication

  Contents

  Part One

  Part Two

  Part Three

  Part Four

  Part Five

  Part Six

  Acknowledgments

  A Biography of Alice Walker

  Copyright

 

 

  Alice Walker, Temple of My Familiar

 

 

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