Ten must-read classics by African American authors

One title on Bruna Lobato's list of ten must-read classics by African American authors, as shared at the Christian Science Monitor:The Color Purple, by Alice Walker

This Pulitzer Prize-winning epistolary novel follows the story of Celie, a woman who is abused by her father during childhood and strives to protect her sister from the same fate. Celie is married off to an abusive husband but,