In the early eightiesm three extraordinary events interrupted Alice Walker's peaceful, reclusive life-the publication of the bestselling novel The Color Purple, the Pulitzer Prize, and an offer from Spielberg to make her novel into a film. This book chronicles that period of transition from recluse to public figure, and invites us to contemplate, along with her, the true significance of unanticipated gifts | The Same River Twice by Alice Walker, Paperback | Indigo Chapters