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Date Posted: 08:00:44 01/24/05 Mon
Author: Catherine Ross
Subject: Cane River - Lalita Tademy

I was recommended this book by a book-fiend friend of mine and I have to say it was one of her best recommendations. It was also recommended by Oprah's bookclub. It is one of those books that you literally cannot put down, I think more so because it stems from one women's search for her ancestral family. Set in a place called Cane River, Louisiana it tells the story of four generations of women born into slavery. Elisabeth, Suzette and Philomene bear the illegitimate offspring of the area's white French planters. Although their paternity is widely acknowledged, neither the State law or local custom allow them to inherit wealth or propery. Often disturbing, Tademy's narrative demonstrates the prohibitions of the time, with plantation society structure, the aftermath of the Civil War and the economic hardships that followed. To this end, the women of the book are pivotal in showing what they had to do in order to survive and move upwards and onwards, albeit very slowly. The book is meticulously researched and beautifully written and also includes some photos of the characters which adds that extra commentary that these were real people struggling through life, not so long ago.

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