Another of Alice Walker’s books that ventures into African causes is her novel Possessing the Secret of Joy. Tashi, whom we met briefly in The Color Purple, is a main character, and her plight is insufferable.

Tashi’s story is engaging, and the prose carries me along. But I cringe when I remember, and clench my thighs together in imagined pain.

I suppose that’s the idea, to make readers feel her pain, to make them want to take up her cause as if it were their own. Awareness in hope of change, right? I might like to take back my oblivion.

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