This book is Hamilton's ode to and a celebration of parallel cultural mythology and traditions. When Pretty Pearl comes down from the God home of Mount Kenya to live among real people, she discovers the diaspora of the slave trade and forgets all her brother god’s warnings about being true to the goddess within her. New York: Macmillan.Ī fantasy, part myth, part legend and folklore. Her Gothic narrative suggests that, for African Americans, the confrontation with their collective cultural past is almost intolerably painful but also essential in order to face the future and grow.This novel powerfully affirms the values of the African-American family and community symbolized in the church, which has played such a profound role in the road to freedom." "Hamilton's most explicit venture into Gothicism.gloriously imbued with specific Gothic effects. Winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award (“The Edgar”) from Mystery Writers of America 1969 It is truly an American classic.Thomas Small and his family move to the great and forbidding House of Dies Drear, a home that was on the Underground Railroad, and trouble begins. Higgins, the Great remains the only novel ever to win the Newbery Medal, the National Book Award, and the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award.
In 1974, Virginia Hamilton dazzled the world with her powerful account of a young man’s coming of age trapped between heritage of his mountain home and his desires for the future. So when two strangers arrive in the hills, one bringing the promise of fame in the world beyond the mountains and the other the revelation that choice and action both lie within his grasp, M.C.’s life is changed forever. looks behind, he sees only the massive remains of strip mining a gigantic heap of dirt and debris perched threateningly on a cliff above his home. knows why his father never wants his family to leave.
looks out from atop the gleaming forty foot pole that his father planted in the mountain for him a gift for swimming the Ohio River he sees only the rolling hills and shady valleys that stretch out for miles in front of him. It bears her name, and her descendants have lived there ever since. His great grandmother escaped to the mountain as a runaway slave and made it her home. M.C.’s family is rooted to the slopes of Sarah’s Mountain.
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