The Way Forward Is With a Broken Heart
- List Price: $23.95
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Random House Trade
- Publish date: 01/01/2004
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"Thirty years ago I met, loved, and married a man from a part of the country foreign to me. He was of a culture, as well, that was foreign to me. As for his race, because of racial segregation or American apartheid, that too was foreign to me. Humor and affection joined us, more than anything. And a bone deep, instinctive belief that we owed it to our ancestors and ourselves to live exactly the life we found on our paths. Or the life that found us. It was a magical marriage. Completely unexpected and unforeseen. Or even imagined. Or legal. And yet, ten years after we met, we parted, in exhaustion and despair.
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This is a magical book, full of deep insights and Walker's unique understanding of people, the spirit, life, sex and love. In her essay, "To My Young Husband". Walker addresses her ex-husband directly. Here, she touches on the pleasures of her early marriage, the problems of interracial, inter-demoninational relationships, the frustration and excitement of raising a child, and the despair of divorce. This is Alice Walker at her best: frank, insightful, and passionate. The stories that follow "To My Young Husband" resound with the hard-won knowledge of love both platonic and romantic, with men and with women, and of the relationships that transform us and make us who we are.
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