Willa CatherClassics · Fiction·1873–1947
Sapphira and the Slave Girl
Synopsis
A dying plantation owner's obsession with a young enslaved woman spirals into madness, and the two women are drawn together in an act of violence that neither can escape. Willa Cather's final novel is a stark, unflinching portrait of Southern life before the Civil War, told through the eyes of a bitter white woman whose jealousy curdles into something monstrous.
