The novel won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer ... artistic reason for this "The Color Purple" singing. The relationship between Celie and Shug Avery, the alluring chanteuse played ...
"The Color Purple is a book about Black lesbians ... Central to that journey is her relationship with another woman, Shug Avery — yet both Steven Spielberg’s 1985 film and Blitz Bazawule ...