Details
Rent Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart (Walker, Alice)
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Narrator: Alfre Woodard
Format: Unabridged-CD, Paperback
Publisher: Random House
Published: Apr 2004
Genre: Fiction - General
Retail Price: $29.95
Discs: 6
Synopsis
Kate Talkingtree, an African-American feminist writer who has made it big, decides to join an all-female rafting trip down the Colorado. There she has an epiphany, and when she returns home she eschews sex with her lover, eventually signing on for another trip, this one down the Amazon. There she encounters The Grandmother, who helps her see that all life is one, even extraterrestrials. Back home, Kate and her lover find a way to remain together, and to incorporate in their lives the wisdom of the spirit world.
Reviews
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.