alice walker the temple of my familiar summary
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