Thank-you for this. The most telling part was that her mother blamed her for things she had no control, like that she was be-racial, had a Jewish father and spent half of her custody time in their warm, conservative, upper middle class home.
Alice Walker tried to prove that she was for sisterhood, but she was really only out for her own selfish promotion as a feminist icon. At least she was not a hypocrite for trashing motherhood. She was competitive and neglectful of her daughter and I hope her grandkids do not idolize or romanticize her in her absence ( or rather abandonment).
I also hated her book and thought she did not deserve the acclaim.
Yes, it takes a special kind of nut to blame a child for their father (or mother) doesn’t it, when your are the person who picked them!