· Andrea Lee, Sarah Phillips (15) I remembered that I was in Paris and there was no one to judge my actions, no one to remind me of my disloyalty to the race, to accuse me of losing my blackness, no one to remind me of the master-slave relationship. I was a free woman and could choose whom and what I wanted. Shay Youngblood, Black Girl in Paris (). Discover the acclaimed author of Red Island House Andrea Lee’s first novel—a coming-of-age classic that follows a young Black woman through her middle-class childhood in the suburbs of Philadelphia and her travels as an adult in France that captures “the hidden world of mind and heart” (LA Times). · Andrea Lee is the author of five books, including the National Book Award–nominated memoir Russian Journal, the novels Red Island House, Lost Hearts in Italy and Sarah Phillips, and the story collection Interesting Women.A former staff writer for The New Yorker, she has written for The New York Times Magazine, Vogue, W, and The New York Times Book Review.
The bad news is: Sarah Phillips was ahead of its time when it was published in , and beyond the literary critics who praised Andrea Lee's elegantly unvarnished look at the upper reaches of black society, it did not receive much attention. Discover the acclaimed author of Red Island House Andrea Lee's first novel—a coming-of-age classic that follows a young Black woman through her middle-class childhood in the suburbs of Philadelphia and her travels as an adult in France that captures "the hidden world of mind and heart" (LA Times).At once far-reaching and intimate, this novel in stories begins in Paris, where Sarah Phillips. "Sarah Phillips" is Andrea Lee's first novel. The book reads like an unromantic autobiography, but it represents much more than a single life because of the changing history of blacks in.
Sarah Phillips The novel Sarah Phillips by Andrea Lee is a consuming, relatable story about a girl confined between two different cultural worlds. One world represents a world full of high class people, opportunities, luxury, privileges and unfortunately ignorance. Sarah Phillips is a novel written by Andrea Lee in The novel takes place in Philadelphia in the period after the civil rights movement, and centers the protagonist, Sarah Phillips, born in , a daughter of a black middle class family living in the suburbs of Philadelphia. From a first-person narrative point of view, Sarah offers chronological snapshots of her and her family's lives. The central concern of ''Sarah Phillips,'' Andrea Lee's first novel, is with a young black woman's quest to invent her own history in the long shadow of a powerful inheritance.
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