| The Temple of My Familiar | |
| Author: | Alice Walker |
| Publisher: | Harcourt |
| Pub Date: | 1989 |
| Pages: | 416 pp. |
| Isbn: | 978-0-15-188533-6 |
| Oclc: | 18781325 |
The Temple of My Familiar is a 1989 novel by Alice Walker. It is an ambitious and multi-narrative novel containing the interleaved stories of Arveyda, a musician in search of his past; Carlotta, his Latin American wife who lives in exile from hers; Suwelo, a black professor of American History who realizes that his generation of men have failed women; Fanny, his ex-wife about to meet her father for the first time; and Lissie, a vibrant creature with a thousand pasts.[1]
The two lead characters from Alice Walker's The Color Purple, Celie and Shug, act as minor supporting characters in this novel.