Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart A Novel

The Pulitzer Prizewinning author ofThe Color Purple,Possessing the Secret of Joy,andThe Temple of My Familiarnow gives us a beautiful new novel that is at once a deeply moving personal story and a powerful spiritual journey. InNow Is the Time to Open Your Heart, Alice Walker has created a work that ranks among her ?nest 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 Heartis Alice Walker's most surprising achievement. From the Hardcover edition.

<b>ALICE WALKER</b> won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award for her novel <b>The Color Purple</b>. Her other novels include <b>By the Light of My Father’s Smile </b>and<b> Possessing the Secret of Joy</b>. 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.<br><br><br><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>