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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Family and Intimate relationships
Alice Walker
Grandmother Kate Walker
had an affair of her own, quickly ended it, and was shot dead by her enraged ex-lover (who had apparently meant only to threaten and scare her). Henry married again to secure...