In Search of our Mothers' Gardens

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A softcover copy of In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens by Alice Walker. The softcover book has an adhesive binding. The book has a purple and white front cover with brown and black type and a purple-and-white headshot of Walker on the front jacket. Walker looks at the viewer, smiling. She holds her proper right hand under her chin and rests her cheek on her raised, proper right index finger. She is wearing a woven wrap, patterned with rectangular blocks and metal hoop earrings. In the bottom right quadrant is a framed, light tan text box outlined in white and black with the title of the book printed inside in brown text of varying sizes that reads [IN / SEARCH / OF OUR / MOTHERS' / GARDENS / Womanist / Prose by / ALICE / WALKER]. Small black text printed in the top left corner of the text box reads [A Harvest/HBJ Book].

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