Chariot on the Mountain Color Purple One of The Atlantic’s Great

One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

never "Dad"--it's no wonder Sunny thinks he's to blame

Samira Wiley

one morning

This book argues that ultimately feminism

Chariot on the Mountain Color Purple One of The Atlantic’s GreatTwo decades before the Civil War, a middle class farmer named Samuel Maddox lies on his deathbed. Elsewhere in his Virginia home, a young woman named Kitty knows her life is about to change. She is one of the Maddox family's slaves and Samuel's biological daughter. When Samuel's wife, Mary, inherits her husband's property, she will own Kitty, too, along with Kitty's three small children. Already in her fifties and with no children of her own, Mary