The Temple of My Familiar - Wikipedia The Temple of My Familiar The Temple of My Familiar First edition Author Alice Walker Publisher Harcourt Publication date Pages 416 pp. ISBN 978 - 0 - 15 - 188533 - 6 OCLC 18781325 The Temple of My Familiar is a 1989 novel by Alice Walker. It is an ambitious and multi-narrative novel containing the interleaved stories of Arveyda, a musician in search of his past ; Carlotta, his Latin American wife who lives in exile from hers ; Suwelo, a black professor of American History who realizes that his generation of men have failed women ; Fanny, his ex-wife about to meet her father for the first time ; and Lissie, a vibrant creature with a thousand pasts. References Jump up ^ Kuhne, Dave ( 1999 ). African Settings in Contemporary American Novels. Westport, Conn. ( u.a. ) : Greenwood Press. pp. 71 -- 74. ISBN 978 - 0 - 313 - 31040 - 9. External links Jones, Mother ( April 1989 ). `` Previews : The Temple of My Familiar ''. Mother Jones. 14 ( 3 ) : 53 -- 54. ( excerpt ) Works by Alice Walker Books The Third Life of Grange Copeland ( 1970 ) Meridian ( 1976 ) The Color Purple ( 1982 ) The Temple of My Familiar ( 1989 ) Possessing the Secret of Joy ( 1992 ) Warrior Marks ( 1993 ) Short stories `` Everyday Use '' ( 1973 ) Collections In Search of Our Mothers ' Gardens ( 1983 ) Adaptations The Color Purple ( film ) The Color Purple ( musical ) This article about a 1980s novel is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. See guidelines for writing about novels. Further suggestions might be found on the article 's talk page. Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Temple_of_My_Familiar&oldid=795598842 '' Categories : 1989 American novels Novels by Alice Walker Womanist novels African - American novels 1980s novel stubs Hidden categories : Pages to import images to Wikidata All stub articles Talk About Wikipedia മലയാളം Edit links This page was last edited on 15 August 2017, at 08 : 05. About Wikipedia

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Answer: an ambitious and multi-narrative novel containing the interleaved stories of Arveyda, a musician in search of his past; Carlotta, his Latin American wife who lives in exile from hers; Suwelo, a black professor of American History who realizes that his generation of men have failed women; Fanny, his ex-wife about to meet her father for the first time; and Lissie, a vibrant creature with a thousand pasts