Now is the Time to Open Your Heart
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Compact disc.
Read by Alfre Woodard.
For many years, Alice Walker has been known for her outspoken positions against racism, sexism, and colonialism. Now, she takes her crusade into the midst of her fiction, as her protagonist (greatly resembling herself) sheds the burdens and blessings of her past to come to terms with an actuality heightened by the transcendental images of magical realism. To be purified, she must go down two rivers. First, there's the Colorado, where she takes an all-female white-water rafting trip which makes her decide to pursue celibacy. Then, there's the Amazon, where she purges her past using yage, a hallucinogenic herb which brings her closer to the World-Grandmother-Spirit. At last, she reaches a place of love and wholeness.
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PUBLISHED
Santa Ana, CA : Books on Tape, p2004.
Year Published: 2004
Description: 6 sound discs (72 min. each) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Format: Book on CD
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
1415999864 :
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Woodard, Alfre, 1953-
SUBJECTS
Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Fiction.
Separation (Psychology) -- Fiction.
Shamanism -- Fiction.
Travelers -- Fiction.
Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) -- Fiction.
Amazon River Region -- Fiction.
Hawaii -- Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Love stories.