The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple, Possessing the Secret of Joy, and The Temple of My Familiar now gives us a beautiful new novel that is at once
a deeply moving personal story and a powerful spiritual journey.

In Now Is the
Time to Open Your Heart, Alice Walker has created a work that ranks among her finest
achievements: the story of a woman’s spiritual adventure that becomes a passage through
time, a quest for self, and a collision with love.

Kate has always been a wanderer.
A well-published author, married many times, she has lived a life rich with explorations
of the natural world and the human soul. Now, at fifty-seven, she leaves her lover,
Yolo, to embark on a new excursion, one that begins on the Colorado River, proceeds
through the past, and flows, inexorably, into the future. As Yolo begins his own
parallel voyage, Kate encounters celibates and lovers, shamans and snakes, memories
of family disaster and marital discord, and emerges at a place where nothing remains
but love.

Told with the accessible style and deep feeling that are its author’s
hallmarks, Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart is Alice Walker’s most surprising achievement.