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We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness

We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness - Paperback

by Alice Walker
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Availability:In StockContributor:Alice Walker, Rebecca WalkerPublish date:2021-11-02Pages:288
Languages:EnglishPublisher:New PressISBN-13:9781620976739ISBN-10:1620976730UPC:9781620976739Book Category:Literary Collections, PoetryBook Subcategory:Essays, AmericanBook Topic:African American & BlackSize:7.20 x 4.50 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.55Product ID:SCHF0Z86TH

Sales record: Alice Walker is a bestselling author, with The Color Purple having sold millions of copies. We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For has sold over 33,000 copies in paperback and hardcover editions.

Review attention: Alice Walker's books from The New Press have been reviewed in outlets such as The Guardian, Washington Post, Ms. Magazine, Cosmopolitan, and the San Francisco Chronicle, and she has been interviewed on programs such as Democracy Now!.

World-famous author: Walker is a National Book Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of poems, novels, short stories, and nonfiction. She is internationally known as one of the United States' most prominent and respected authors.

Online presence: Walker maintains a robust website where she posts poetry and blog entries; social media regularly spikes with quotations from and references to Walker, particularly in response to #BlackLivesMatter and #BlackGirlMagic.

Anniversary: 2021 will mark the 15th anniversary of the publication of We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:New PressISBN-13:9781620976739ISBN-10:1620976730UPC:9781620976739Book Category:Literary Collections, PoetryBook Subcategory:Essays, AmericanBook Topic:African American & BlackSize:7.20 x 4.50 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.55Product ID:SCHF0Z86TH
Alice Walker is one of the most prolific and important writers of our time, known for her literary fiction, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color Purple (which was also a major Broadway play), her many volumes of poetry, and her powerful nonfiction collections. She is the author of Possessing the Secret of Joy, The World Has Changed (edited by Rudolph P. Byrd), The Chicken Chronicles, The World Will Follow Joy, and The Cushion in the Road, all published by The New Press. Some of her other bestselling books include In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens, The Temple of My Familiar, By the Light of My Father's Smile, and The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart. Her advocacy on behalf of the dispossessed has spanned the globe. She lives in Northern California.
Publisher: New Press

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Alice Walker, Rebecca Walker

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Alice Walker

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