Cane River (Oprah's Book Club) | Lalita Tademy

Cane River (Oprah's Book Club) | Lalita Tademy | Powerful.

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	Cane River (Oprah's Book Club) Lalita Tademy Grand Central Publishing, 2005 - 584 pages average customer review:based on 299 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Lalita Tademy was a successful vice president at Sun Microsystems when she began what became an obsessive two-year search to uncover the story of her family's roots. It was a personal odyssey that took her back to the early l800s and a small rural community on Louisiana's Cane River. There, digging through official records, conducting interviews, and relying on the expertise of professional genealogists, Tademy was able to bring to vivid life four remarkable women--her great, great, great, great grandmother Elisabeth; her great, great, great grandmother Suzette; her great, great grandmother Philomene; and her great-grandmother Emily. Beginning in slavery, sweeping through the Civil War, and bringing us into the pre-Civil Rights South, we follow the struggles of these four women through extraordinary hardships as they learn to empower themselves and, despite overwhelming pressures, get their due and preserve their heritage. Meticulously researched and beautifully written, this woman's Roots presents a slice of American history never before seen in such piercing and personal detail.

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Cane River

One of the best books I've ever read. I've shared it with many, but it will remain in my library.

Powerful.

The depth, insight, and experience lacking in most books are found here. As an African-American woman, Lalita Tademy has the life experience that the majority lacks. Genuine empathy and insight is very hard to come by, but Tademy has it, and makes it come alive in her female ancestors. I actually felt depressed when I finished this book because I wanted to continue tagging along with her characters. Thank you for this amazing gift. BRAVO!

Couldn't put it down

I purchased this book on a Friday and finished reading it on Sunday afternoon. I couldn't put it down. I banned my kids from my room and soaked in the tub for 2 hours just so that I could get some uninterrupted "me" time. This story was wonderfully told and had my imagination fired up. I felt like I was there. I'm looking forward to reading Red River.

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Good Book

The story of her family history is very interesting. I enjoyed the book, the character development could have been better.

Great lesson in history and geneology

I am another reader, leery of "Oprah Books". I was pleasantly surprised with this one. This book was a fascinating history lesson for me! The project Lalita took on is something a lot of people have been doing lately especially with the help of the internet. Researching genelogy has always intrigued me. Lalita took this one step further and filled in the gaps of her research with a fictional story that was so good, it was hard to tell the difference between fact and fiction. Lalita began with Elisabeth who was born around the turn of the 19th century and progressed forward with Suzette, Philomene and Emily. Each woman felt the hardships of life as a slave in Louisiana but they also found a way to get what they needed to live as well as they could during their oppression. Tademy includes pictures, letters, bills of sale in her book that help give her people a voice to share their lives with us. Despite all the prejudices and oppression these women had to deal with, they still came through their hardships with their heads held high. I enjoyed this book and highly recommend it.

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