“Cane River”
by Lalita Tademy
Published: April 2002
ISBN: 0446678457

(Updated: April 14, 2007.)

From the Publisher…

Lalita Tademy’s New York Times bestseller and Oprah Book Club pick, the compelling saga based on the lives of four generations of African American women, is now in paperback. Lalita Tademy was a corporate vice president at a Fortune 500 company when she decided to give notice and embark upon an odyssey to uncover her familys past. Through her exhaustive research, she would find herself transported back to the early 1800s, to an isolated, close-knit rural community on Louisianas Cane River. Here, Tademy takes historical fact and mingles it with fiction to weave a vividaccount of what life was like for the four remarkable women who came before her. The result is a family saga that sweeps from the early days of slavery into a pre-Civil Rights Southa unique and moving slice of Americas past that will resonate with readers for generations to come.

There was way too much to write about, to think about, to feel after having finished this book. I had to take a little while (the length of reading a whole other book actually) to comment. I did though know right away that I was amazed that I hadn’t known that this work was “out there”.

Now, still, I feel almost unable to comment. The descriptors I have at my disposal seem far too trite somehow. And, they almost feel as though they are not mine to use. I will again write that I am amazed to not have known that this book was out there.