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Main character Sara Hughes Harvey is an eighty-four year old firecracker of a grandma with a knack for tellin4 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. Sara4s 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 BELOWGrowinand#8217; old is a funny thing. If you havenand#8217; t gotten there already, youand#8217; 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 youand#8217; ve already told the story before. I have a story to tell that Iand#8217; ve probably to fifty times. No, better make that a hundred times. No matter how many times I repeat it, Iand#8217; m not usually interrupted. People listen when I tell it because itand#8217; s a fantastic story. Itand#8217; s not so fantastic because I embellish it, because believe you meand#8212; some things need embellishing and some things donand#8217; t. This story is so wonderful because itand#8217; s one of those that donand#8217; t. I suppose itand#8217; s well received because itand#8217; s the truth. As I was growing up, my mama u say, and#8220; Truth is the truth today, it was truth yesterday, and itand#8217; s sure to be the truth tomorrow. Believinand#8217; it or not believinand#8217; it donand#8217; t do a thing to changethat.and#8221; I do believe Mama was right on the money. For me, itand#8217; s not the telling thatand#8217; s so delightful. Itand#8217; s the fact that no matter what you believe when Iand#8217; m done telling the story, there is no force on earth that can change the fact that it did happen. /