Speaking of Summer Color Purple it comes after years of

it comes after years of yearning to leave Pennyfield

and--even in its unsparing brutality--full of love

and the power of reading by a man who spent 30 years on death row for a crime he didn't commit

Jacqueline Woodson

Speaking of Summer Color Purple it comes after years ofOn a cold December evening, Autumn Spencers twin sister, Summer, walks to the roof of their shared Harlem brownstone and is never seen again. The door to the roof is locked, and the snow holds only one set of footprints. Faced with authorities indifferent to another missing Black woman, Autumn must pursue the search for her sister all on her own. With her friends and neighbors, Autumn pretends to hold up through the crisis. But the loss becomes too