In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens

Womanist Prose

By: Alice Walker

Narrated by: Lynnette R. Freeman

In this groundbreaking classic essay collection, Alice Walker speaks out as a Black woman, writer, mother, and feminist on topics ranging from the personal to the political.

Originally published forty years ago, Alice Walker’s first collection of nonfiction is a dazzling compendium that remains both timely and relevant. In these thirty-six essays, Walker contemplates her own work and that of other writers, considers the civil rights movement of the 1960s and the anti-nuclear movement of the 1980s, and writes vividly and courageously about a scarring childhood injury. Throughout, Walker explores the theories and practices of feminism, incorporating what she calls the “womanist” tradition of black women—insights that are vital to understanding our lives and society today.

“When I graduated from college, my father gave me Alice Walker’s In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens. It was a beaten-up paperback in 1999, and it’s even more battered now.” —Jesmyn Ward

Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

Connect to your inner woman

Fabulous read when you need to feel like a multifaceted woman and hear perfect descriptions of lived experience

Insightful

Not my kind of read but I loved the insight and history. Would recommend to those who love black history