Amari (the main character) once had a perfect life engaged to the man of her dreams. My book Copper Sun was written by a woman who was the granddaughter of a slave, award winning, and determined to not make statistics become her reality, Sharon M. Every object is a link in an endless chain and is thus connected with all the other links, (that has changed).
Many people are confused about the elements in their history, the chains that were attached to our ancestors. Maybe it's about unbecoming everything that isn't really you, so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place.”-Anonymous “Maybe the journey isn't so much about becoming anything. Maybe it's about unbecoming everything that isn't really you, so you can be who you …more But after all that Amari has gone through, readers will likely find the conclusion a huge relief. The author also pulls her punches with a highly implausible happy ending. These lurid elements may appeal to reluctant readers who would normally shy away from historical fiction, but they unfortunately push the story to the brink of melodrama. Every bad thing that befell an African slave either happens to or is witnessed by Amari (e.g., Africans eaten by sharks, children used as live alligator bait, an infant shot dead out of spite). Draper has obviously done her homework, but the narrative wears its research heavily. Befriended by the wise cook, a white indentured girl named Polly and the beleaguered mistress of the household, Amari eventually and improbably finds a way to escape.
The story doesn't really take off until Amari reaches her new "home," a rice plantation run by a Snidely Whiplash clone, who presents her to his evil-to-the-core son as a birthday gift. The horrors of the kidnapping-Amari's parents and little brother are murdered before her eyes-and the Atlantic crossing unwind in exhaustive detail, but the material seems familiar. ) historical novel takes on an epic sweep as it chronicles the story of 15-year-old Amari, kidnapped from her African village in 1738 and sold into sexual slavery in South Carolina.
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