<div>In this, her first collection of nonfiction, Alice Walker speaks out as a<br>black woman, writer, mother, and feminist in thirty-six pieces ranging<br>from the personal to the political. Among the contents are essays about<br>other writers, accounts of the civil rights movement of the 1960s and the<br>antinuclear movement of the 1980s, and a vivid memoir of a scarring<br>childhood injury and her daughter's healing words.<br></div>