The Color Purple

Short Review: This is a rough book, especially the beginning. Not the writing. The writing is evocative, poetic and engaging. But the content is difficult. It is way to much to easily describe. But the story starts with a Celie as a child writing letters to God describing in her limited capacity being repeatedly raped by her father as her mother slowly dies. After her mother dies the rape continues and she gives birth to two children before being essentially sold off by her father to be the wife to a widower (sex slave, domestic servant and step mother to children that are not much younger than she is.)

The story is dark although it does lighten up after about 20-30 percent of the way through the book.

My full review is on my blog at http://bookwi.se/color-purple/