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THE WAY FORWARD IS WITH A BROKEN HEART
By Alice Walker
Random House, 200 pages, $23.95
Alice Walker became a bit of a cult figure after Steven Spielberg sent her Pultitzer Prize-winning novel, “The Color Purple,” through Hollywood’s Mixmaster. This new hybrid of memoir and fiction caps Walker’s 30-year career, which has been full of raw, emotionally devastating writing. The most affecting, and central, part of this slim volume of stories is “To My Young Husband,” an open letter chronicling the joy and grief of her marriage to a lawyer she met on the front lines of the fight for civil rights in Mississippi.
