<Tr> <Th> ISBN </Th> <Td> 978 - 0 - 15 - 188533 - 6 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> OCLC </Th> <Td> 18781325 </Td> </Tr> <P> The Temple of My Familiar is a 1989 novel by Alice Walker . It is 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 . </P>

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