Possessing the Secret of Joy

by Alice Walker

Book, 1992

Publication

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1991)

Content and Summary Info

Bisexual Content: A supporting character (cisgender man) identifies as bisexual.

Intersecting Marginalized Identities: Several main and supporting characters (including the bisexual supporting character) are black. The main character is from Olinka, a fictional African nation.

Publisher's Summary: ...the searing story of Tashi, a tribal African woman first glimpsed in The Color Purple whose fateful decision to submit to the tsunga’s knife and be genitally mutilated leads to a trauma that informs her life and fatefully alters her existence.

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