Temple of My Familiar (54 page)
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Authors: Alice Walker
A photograph of Walker taken in 2007 at a ceremony for her dog, Marley, and her cat, Surprise. “Marley appeared,” she says, but “Surprise slept through it!”
Walker at her country home in Northern California, where she has lived since the early 1980s. “What attracted me to this part of the world—Northern California—is really the resemblance to Georgia that it has,” she once told an interviewer. “This has been a very good place for me,” she went on, “a very good place for dreaming.”
Walker writing on the front porch of her California home. She has lived in many different places throughout the world—including Africa, Hawaii, and Mexico—and finding a place to write has always been a matter of utmost importance for her. She once said that “books and houses” are what she “longed for most as a child.” Years after her tenant farming childhood, Walker is happy to have a place she can truly call home.
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Excerpt from
Orlando
, copyright 1928 by Virginia Woolf, renewed 1956 by Leonard Woolf, reprinted by permission of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.
Excerpt from “Give Me Something” by Yoko Ono, © 1980 by Lenono Music. All rights controlled and administered by SBK Blackwood Music Inc. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Used by permission.
copyright © 1989 by Alice Walker
cover design by Connie Gabbert
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