Despite winning several prestigious literary awards of the day, when it first appeared, Alice Walker's The Color Purple generated critical unease over puzzling aspects of its compositions.

The problem was, there were some kids at school who were picking on him every day about winning the science fair; he was getting teased and jostled and even, occasionally, beaten up.

The odds that Peta is only receiving unadoptable animals are about the same as me winning the lottery and being struck by lightning on the same day.