num_pages: 306
description: Main character Sara Hughes Harvey is an eighty-four year old firecracker of a grandma with a knack for tellin´ it like it is... In this unforgettable narrative, Mama Harvey paints a vivid picture of her life as a little colored girl in the rural South during the nineteen-thirties. Sara´s compelling account of the suspicion and hatred that ensues in her back-woods town when the only child of a prominent white family is found murdered makes The Memoirs of Sara Harvey the must-read of the decade and impossible to put down. SEE THE SARA HARVEY EXCERPT BELOWGrowin’ old is a funny thing. If you haven’t gotten there already, you’ll soon understand what I mean. The oddest things put a spark your brain and drag you down memory lane whether you want to go there or not. You start talking about the things you remember, and halfway through your story, some disrespectful young pup, reminds you that you’ve already told the story before. I have a story to tell that I’ve probably told fifty times. No, better make that a hundred times. No matter how many times I repeat it, I’m not usually interrupted. People listen when I tell it because it’s a fantastic story. It’s not so fantastic because I embellish it, because believe you me—some things need embellishing and some things don’t. This story is so wonderful because it’s one of those that don’t. I suppose it’s well received because it’s the truth. As I was growing up, my mama used to say, “Truth is the truth today, it was truth yesterday, and it’s sure to be the truth tomorrow. Believin’ it or not believin’ it don’t do a thing to change that.” I do believe Mama was right on the money. For me, it’s not the telling that’s so delightful. It’s the fact that no matter what you believe when I’m done telling the story, there is no force on earth that can change the fact that it did happen.
language: English
title: The Memoirs of Sara Harvey
titlecomplete: The Memoirs of Sara Harvey
ratings_count: 3
publisher: Xlibris, Corp.