{"product_id":"sapphires-grave-hilda-gurley-highgate-9780767908832","title":"Sapphire's Grave","description":"The debut of a major new talent, \u003cb\u003eSAPPHIRE'S GRAVE\u003c\/b\u003e tells the stories of several generations of African-American women, bringing their spirit and their sorrow to life with a power, sensitivity, and immediacy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough 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, \u003cb\u003eSAPPHIRE'S GRAVE\u003c\/b\u003e is an astonishing work by an author poised to take the literary world by storm.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hilda Gurley Highgate\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 076790883X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780767908832\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Crown Publishing Group (NY)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/23\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.70d","brand":"Hilda Gurley Highgate","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43990329458943,"sku":"9780767908832","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d9c1c011-99b2-40cd-ac5a-f93be61caedb.jpg?v=1683304121","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sapphires-grave-hilda-gurley-highgate-9780767908832","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}