Short Story Review: Everyday Use by Alice Walker

A story about the lengths one can go to disguise shame and thus miss their blessings

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“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…