Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart_ A Novel - Alice Walker [77]
Anything We Love Can Be Saved
The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult
Warrior Marks (with Pratibha Parmar)
Living by the Word
In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens
POEMS
A Poem Traveled Down My Arm
Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth
Her Blue Body Everything We Know
Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful
Good Night, Willie Lee, I’ll See You in the Morning
Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems
Once
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2004 by Alice Walker
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Walker, Alice.
Now is the time to open your heart : a novel / Alice Walker.
p. cm.
1. Self-actualization (Psychology)—Fiction. 2. Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)—Fiction. 3. Separation (Psychology)—Fiction. 4. Amazon River Region—Fiction.
5. Shamanism—Fiction. 6. Travelers—Fiction. 7. Hawaii—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3573.A425N69 2004
813′.54—dc21 2003054766
The author is committed to preserving ancient forests and natural resources and wishes to acknowledge Random House for printing this book on paper that is 100 percent postconsumer recycled fibers and processed chlorine free. For more information about Green Press Initiative and the use of recycled paper in book publishing, visit www.greenpressinitiative.org.
eISBN: 978-1-58836-396-1
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