Willie Lee's father, Henry Clay Walker
or Pa-Pa, had never recovered from his family's loss of its own farm through boll-weevil infestations. When the love of his life, called Shug (for Sugar) Perry
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Alice Walker
The germ of this novel lay in a story told to AW
by her sister Ruth
, probably in 1973, of how their step-grandmother, Rachel Walker
, begged her husband
's mistress, Shug Perry
...
