• Jafet Library- American University of Beirut, Lebanon
  
  
  

Kate has always been a wanderer. A well-published author, married several times, she has lived a life full of exploration. Now, as she begins to feel the first ravages of age, she wants to find a new sense of meaning.

She leaves her lover Yolo and embarks on a journey down the Colorado river - a journey that will force her to re-explore her past and her future, and her connection to the real world. On her travels she meets shamans and the mysterious spiritual world of the native Indian. Yolo too begins his own journey as he travels to Hawaii and meets a former lover whose life is being destroyed by the excesses of American society.

As Kate and Yolo gain shifting insights into their own lives and the world around them, will their paths diverge or lead back to each other? Written with Alice Walker's flawless and passionate prose, this is a beautiful meditation on wisdom and nature - the story of one woman's spiritual quest, her passage through time, and her collision with love.

Alice Walker won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award for The Color Purple. She is the author of many bestselling novels, essays and collections of poetry including Meridian, By the Light of My Father's Smile and The Third Life of Grange Copeland. Alice lives in northern California.