Alice Walker, possessing the secret of joy

alice walker was born in 1944, in Eatonton, Georgia, the eight and last child of a couple of sharecroppers. She went to Spelman, a college for black women in Atlanta. After spending two years there she transferred to Sarah Lawrence College in New York and during her junior year travelled to Africa as an exchange student. In 1965, she received her bachelor of Arts degree from Sarah Lawrence College.
alice walker was active in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s in the South and today she's still an involved activist. She has spoken for the women's movement, the anti-apartheid movement, for the anti-nuclear movement and against female genital mutilation (FGM).
In 1983, she received the Pulitzer Prize for the Color Purple, the first book of a trilogy comprising also, The Temple of my familiar (1989) and possessing the secret of joy (1992), which stayed for 17 weeks at the top of the sales in the USA.
In the Color Purple, Celie was the most important character, a black woman, two times pregnant of her stepfather, giving birth to a girl, Olivia and a boy, Adam, both of them adopted by a couple of missionaries moving to the African continent. The main character of possessing the secret of joy is linked to these previous ones. Her name is Tashi and she belongs to the Olinka's tribe. She's Olivia's friend on the African continent and becomes later Adam's wife.