Sapphire's Grave by Highgate, Hilda Gurley - 2002

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Doubleday. 1st printing,2003. Very Good/Very Good hard cover. 8vo,boards,248pp. slight edgewear,rubbing,dust jacket. clean text with some stress at gutter pages 246-7. fiction.

New York: Doubleday, 2003. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 248 pp. First printing.

Doubleday, 2003. 1st. Fine. 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… Read More

Doubleday, 2002-12-24. hardcover. New. 6x0x9.