{"product_id":"sapphire-s-grave-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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.","brand":"Crown","offers":[{"title":"STANDARD","offer_id":62275362357635,"sku":"9780767908832","price":19.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/8456\/3587\/files\/9780767908832.jpg?v=1785535235","url":"https:\/\/shopcomics.eu\/products\/sapphire-s-grave-9780767908832","provider":"Shop Comics EU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}