num_pages: 417
description: First published in 1990, The Temple of My Familiar, Alice Walker’s follow-up novel to her iconic The Color Purple, spent more than four months on the New York Times Bestseller list and was hailed by critics as a major achievement” (Chicago Tribune). Described by the author as a romance of the last 500,000 years,” The Temple of My Familiar follows a cast of interrelated characters, most of African descent, and each representing a different ethnic strainranging from diverse African tribes to the mixed bloods of Latin Americathat contribute to the black experience in America.  
language: English
title: The Temple of My Familiar
titlecomplete: The Temple of My Familiar
genres: Literature, Classics, Feminism, Literary Fiction, African American, Novels, Magical Realism, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Race
ratings_count: 14288
series: The Color Purple Collection
publisher: Pocket