Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart, Alice Walker
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Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart

Author: Alice Walker

Narrator: Alfre Woodard

Unabridged: 6 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/20/2004


Synopsis

The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple, Possessing the Secret of Joy, and The Temple of My Familiar now gives us a beautiful new novel that is at once a deeply moving personal story and a powerful spiritual journey.

In Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart, Alice Walker has created a work that ranks among her finest 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 Heart is Alice Walker’s most surprising achievement.

Author Bio

Alice Walker, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, is a canonical figure in American letters. She is the author of The Color Purple, The Temple of My Familiar, Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful, The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart, Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart, and many other works of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Her writings have been translated into more than two dozen languages, and more than fifteen million copies of her books have been sold worldwide.

Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Bunny on 2007-06-29 11:05:01

I wanted it to be better. I know and love all of Alice Walkers writings, and respect her talent and insights into the human condition. BUT this book was too syrupy sweet, condescending and preachy. I agree with the thesis--we should all protect the sacred that has been entrusted to us in our extraordinary earth home--but the 'over the top' cloyingness of the message as presented in this book makes the subject trite instead of terrific. Too bad.