Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart

A Novel

By: Alice Walker

Narrated by: Alfre Woodard

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.©2004 Alice Walker; (P)2004 Random House, Inc. Random House Audio, an imprint of the Random House Audio Publishing Group

Critic reviews

Praise for Alice Walker:

“Alice Walker is a lavishly gifted writer.”
—The New York Times Book Review, about The Color Purple

“Amazing, overwhelming.”
—Ursula K. Le Guin, about The Temple of My Familiar

“Places Walker in the company of Faulkner.”
—The Nation, about The Color Purple

“Hugely original...once again demonstrates Walker’s gigantic talent.”
—Baltimore Sun, about By the Light of My Father’s Smile

Nice Interwoven Story

A beautiful addition to my Alice Walker collection. I loved the interweaving of dreams, reality, history, and world knowledge. I loved it and it was captivating.

Food for the intellect, heart, and soul

I find it rare that a book challenges and fulfills its readers on so many levels as this one. Strange as it sounds, listening to this book felt pleasantly like cleaning and re-energizing my mind. It was hypnotic. It challenged me on a mental, emotional, and spiritual level that I enjoyed thoroughly. The narrator did an excellent job, as well. I look forward to listening to it again. My only disappointment is that I can't find any other novels by Alice Walker on Audible.

Quite lovely to listen to.

Oh, Grandmother. What a lovely journey to listen to. I swayed with this story, the only story I've read this far by Alice Walker. I plan on reading/listening to more of her works in the near future.

Awesome read

I love how in all her books she covers so much history and background. she covers so much that I've wondered about in life in general.

I appreciate the challenges that

Alice Walker offers in her writings. I'm always challenged to reconsider certain views, opinions and thoughts. And, at end of her books I feel refreshed.