An underrated piece of resistance literature from the author of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The Penultimate Truth explored the notion of “Fake News” long before it became a political reality.
Celie has grown up poor in rural Georgia, despised by the society around her and abused by her own family. She strives to protect her sister, Nettie, from a similar fate, and while Nettie escapes to a new life as a missionary in Africa, Celie is left behind without her best friend and confidante, married off to an older suitor, and sentenced to a life alone with a harsh and brutal husband.
