Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart - by Alice Walker (Paperback)

About the Book

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Color Purple, Possessing the Secret of Joy," and "The Temple of My Familiar" now gives readers a beautiful new novel that is at once a deeply moving personal story and a powerful spiritual journey.

Book Synopsis

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple, Possessing the Secret of Joy, and The Temple of My Familiar now gives us a beautiful new novel that is at once a deeply moving personal story and a powerful spiritual journey.

In Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart, Alice Walker has created a work that ranks among her finest achievements: the story of a woman's spiritual adventure that becomes a passage through time, a quest for self, and a collision with love.

Kate has always been a wanderer. A well-published author, married many times, she has lived a life rich with explorations of the natural world and the human soul. Now, at fifty-seven, she leaves her lover, Yolo, to embark on a new excursion, one that begins on the Colorado River, proceeds through the past, and flows, inexorably, into the future. As Yolo begins his own parallel voyage, Kate encounters celibates and lovers, shamans and snakes, memories of family disaster and marital discord, and emerges at a place where nothing remains but love.

Told with the accessible style and deep feeling that are its author's hallmarks, Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart is Alice Walker's most surprising achievement.

Review Quotes

Praise for Alice Walker:

"Alice Walker is a lavishly gifted writer."
--The New York Times Book Review, about The Color Purple

"Amazing, overwhelming."
--Ursula K. Le Guin, about The Temple of My Familiar

"Places Walker in the company of Faulkner."
--The Nation, about The Color Purple

"Hugely original...once again demonstrates Walker's gigantic talent."
--Baltimore Sun, about By the Light of My Father's Smile

About the Author

ALICE WALKER won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award for her novel The Color Purple. Her other novels include By the Light of My Father's Smile and Possessing the Secret of Joy. She is also the author of three collections of short stories, three collections of essays, five volumes of poetry, and several children's books. Born in Eatonton, Georgia, Walker now lives in northern California.