Sapphire's Grave

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Hilda Gurley Highgate

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Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Del
15 December 2003

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

The debut of a major new talent, SAPPHIRE'S GRAVE tells the stories of several generations of African-American women, bringing their spirit and their sorrow to life with a

power, sensitivity, and immediacy.

In 1749 in Sierra Leone, a woman of fierce dignity is captured and forced onto a slave ship. On the harrowing voyage to the Americas, she is beaten for her unrelenting will and staunch pride. When she arrives, she gives birth to a daughter who is called Sapphire because of the ""black-blue-black"" complexion she shares with her mother. Sapphire has also inherited her mother's strength and defiant spirit, and despite a life of poverty and opression, she grows up to mother several daughters of her own. Even when tragedy strikes and part of Sapphire dies, her strength gives rise to a legend that will sustain the women who follow her, ""each carrying something of her mother, her grandmother, her aunts; each passing on to her own daughters blessing and cursing, the consequences of her own choosing.

Through the lives of Sapphire and her descendants, Hilda Gurley-Highgate not only creates a poignant and engrossing saga of black women in America, she brilliantly illuminates the meaning of roots and the links between women and their female ancestors, a tie that often appears tenuous, undefined, and distant, but is strong, palpable, and much closer than we imagine. Written in luminous prose, SAPPHIRE'S GRAVE is an astonishing work by an author poised to take the literary world by storm.

By: Hilda Gurley Highgate
Imprint: Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Del
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 194g
ISBN: 9780767908832
ISBN 10: 076790883X
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 15 December 2003
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

HILDA GURLEY-HIGHGATE is an attorney in Detroit, Michigan. This is her first novel.

Reviews for Sapphire's Grave

lyric paean to black women through the centuries.- --Kirkus Reviews -A striking debut novel. This intergenerational saga of African American women is remarkable for its narrative approach . . . Gurley-Highgate's use of poetic language, pace and rhythm engages the reader on a deeply spiritual level.- --Black Issues Book Review -Gurley-Highgate writes with a crisp, unsentimental style and captures regional cadences as succinctly as the poetry of the inner self.- --Baltimore Sun lyric paean to black women through the centuries. --Kirkus Reviews A striking debut novel. This intergenerational saga of African American women is remarkable for its narrative approach . . . Gurley-Highgate's use of poetic language, pace and rhythm engages the reader on a deeply spiritual level. --Black Issues Book Review Gurley-Highgate writes with a crisp, unsentimental style and captures regional cadences as succinctly as the poetry of the inner self. --Baltimore Sun lyric paean to black women through the centuries. Kirkus Reviews A striking debut novel. This intergenerational saga of African American women is remarkable for its narrative approach . . . Gurley-Highgate s use of poetic language, pace and rhythm engages the reader on a deeply spiritual level. Black Issues Book Review Gurley-Highgate writes with a crisp, unsentimental style and captures regional cadences as succinctly as the poetry of the inner self. Baltimore Sun