Quiver of the Pure Heart

Quiver of the Pure Heart: Love, Corruption & Gentrification Collide; as New Novel Uncovers Family 'Secrets' During Heroine's San Francisco Displacement. Burnita Bluitt's 'Quiver of the Pure Heart' is one of the few novels on the market to shine a very urgent real-world spotlight on the topic of gentrification and urban displacement. However, heroine Blis Dumas quickly learns that she faces things that are far more complicated than just relocation. The discovery of family secrets reveals that the problems being created by the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency are chillingly personal, with forgiveness and compassion about to become her weapons of choice. In 1948, San Francisco's Fillmore District was designated a redevelopment area, sparking tumultuous decades in which, according to city officials, 883 businesses were shuttered, 4,729 households were forced out, and roughly 2,500 Victorian homes were demolished. While this unfortunate gentrification may sound like a historical mistake, metro cities across the nation are currently facing similar fates. It's a subject that rarely makes it into fiction, but one Burnita Bluitt tackles with gusto in her latest novel. 'Quiver of the Pure Heart' is intimately told through the eyes of Blis Dumas, a young San Francisco woman who discovers she is forced to sell her home to the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency. But all isn't as it seems; and emotions are about to run higher than she could...