The Temple of My Familiar

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The Temple of My Familiar is 1989 novel by Alice Walker. It is an ambitious and multi-narrative novel containing the interleaved stories of : Arvedyda, 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 realises 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.

[edit] Reception

After the huge critical and commercial success that was The Colour Purple Walker's next novel was always going to be difficult and so it proved. Critics were generally nonplussed and readers less than enthusiastic.