num_pages: 418
description: In this, her first collection of nonfiction, Alice Walker speaks out as a black woman, writer, mother, and feminist in thirty-six pieces ranging from the personal to the political. Among the contents are essays about other writers, accounts of the civil rights movement of the 1960s and the antinuclear movement of the 1980s, and a vivid memoir of a scarring childhood injury and her daughter's healing words.
language: English
title: In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
titlecomplete: In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
genres: Essays, Social Justice, Womens, Poetry, Race, African American, Feminism, Nonfiction, Anti Racist, Memoir
ratings_count: 7846
awards: awardedAt: 441792000000
name: Lillian Smith Book Award
publisher: Mariner Books