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The
2003 Award
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Cane River by Lalita Tademy
Nominated by:
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Publisher of Nominated Edition: Headline Review ISBN 0747270155 |
| the complete A-Z listing of nominated authors. |
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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among the lush, swampy plantations of deepest Louisiana, Cane River
follows the lives of four generations of women from the time of slavery
in the early 1800s, sweeping through the American Civil War and into the
pre-civil rights South. From down-trodden, philosophical Suzette, who came into womanhood as a slave, to educated pale-skinned Emily, whose high ambitions born in freedom became her downfall, these remarkable women's struggles reflect the tragedy of slavery and, ultimately, the triumph of the human spirit. This deeply personal saga is the result of many years of exhaustive research into the author's own family story. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Lalita Tademy is a former vice-president of a Fortune 500 technology company in Silicon Valley, California. She left the corporate world after discovering her great-great-great-great-grandmother's original Bill of Sale and decided she had to write this book. |
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