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{ NOV 2021 - Verified ebook for complete book description, cover, table of contents, separation of book (front/ back matter, parts, and chapters), and epub format error checking. } Hardcover, 432 pages Published: 2001 Edition: Warner Books eBook (2001) When the urge hit her, Lalita Tademy was corporate vice president of Sun Microsystems: "I had the feeling there was something else I was supposed to do." While she was deciding what that something else was, Tademy spent two years researching "the slave branch" of her family, "my mother's side." Returning to her ancestors' Cane River roots, she scouted old sharecroppers' farms; ransacked old courthouse archives; plotted a paper trail from grueling bondage to better days. Then, discovering what "I was supposed to do," she sat down to write this novel about the lives of slaves who were never allowed to write it themselves. Genealogy with wings. Beginning with her great-great-great-great grandmother, a slave owned by a Creole family, Lalita Tademy chronicles four generations of strong, determined black women as they battle injustice to unite their family and forge success on their own terms. They are women whose lives begin in slavery, w

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Author
Lalita Tademy
Publisher
Warner Books; Hachette Book Group
Published
2001
Language
EN
ISBN
9780446588164
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
Rating
4.04 / 5 (220 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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