Short Story Review: Everyday Use by Alice Walker
A story about the lengths one can go to disguise shame and thus miss their blessings
4 min readOct 28, 2023
“Everyday Use” was written by author Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple for which she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. It was first published in 1973 in Harper’s Magazine and also appears in…