cover image Possessing the Secret of Joy

Possessing the Secret of Joy

Alice Walker. Pocket Books, $7.99 (304pp) ISBN 978-0-671-78942-8

Pulitzer Prize winner Walker illustrates the truism that violence begets violence in this strong-voiced but often strident and polemical novel, a 17-week PW bestseller, which focuses on the practice of female circumcision in African cultures. (June)