Annotation
This searing first novel is the story of Sarah Stewart, a young black Harvard graduate in the 1960s whose growing interest in Africa—and down a path of self-discovery, love, and the choice between loyalty and truth.
This is at once the story of the emerging civil rights movement and the beginning of Afro-centrism. Lyrical. Lyrical, moving, and ultimately uncompromising, Sarah's Psalm is also a powerful story of love and coming of age.
Awards
1997 Black Caucus of the America Library Association Award
Characters
| Name | Thompson, Sarah Stewart |
| Gender | Female |
| Occupation | Student |
| Traits | African American |
| Married | |
| Name | Mangane, Ibrahim |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupations | Writer |
| Filmmaker | |
| Traits | Married |
| Senegalese | |
| Genre | Historical Sociological Love story Fiction |
| Topics | Civil rights movement Troubled marriages Career vs. family Self-discovery Afrocentrism Man-woman relationships Marriage Women's rights |
| Setting | Dakar, Senegal |