Copper Sun by Sharon Draper

Copper Sun by Sharon M. Draper

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


I found a new favorite in COPPER SUN and will probably reread the story of brave Amari over and over again. Once a secure and betrothed girl in her African tribe, her life is turned completely awry, when her village is attacked and ravaged by white men from America and foiled neighbors of a different tribe. When Amari is sold into slavery, readers are dragged through the dirt, tossed and soiled on a huge ship headed across the ocean, and violated on the docks in front of slave traders right along with Amari. Every person she encounters along her hopeless journey as a slave has a powerful and intoxicating story that helps weave her experience deeper together. One can only pray she makes her way to freedom with her newfound friends in tow and back to the land of her slain parents and younger brother, where copper suns warm the land. There are few other slave accounts I can think of that detail the horror and agony of this time period so beautifully. COPPER SUN is an exhausting journey and exhilarating diary that tops other stories of slavery I can remember. Although I wanted Amari's pain and suffering to end at every page turn, Draper tells this story in a way that makes you want the story to continue on forever.



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