The Color Purple

I loved this book except the writing style was distracting - not Celie's style of writing/Georgia accent, but the letter format. The chapters were supposed to be letters from the sisters, but they'd be telling a story and switch to first person narrative for pages, but it would be a first person narrative from the perspective of someone else who had told them a story. It was confusing at times and their letters were not how people would actually write letters. If the author wants to tell a story in that way, then why do the letters at all?

Anyway, loved the story but was just distracted at times by the format and switching of narratives.