Cane River

Cane River

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Cane River
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by Lalita Tademy

Format: Hardcover, 418pp.
ISBN: 0446530522
Publisher: Time Warner
Pub. Date: June 2001

Cane was an AALBC.com Best-seller for Sept/Oct 2001

Cane River was chosen for Oprah's Book Club on June 20, 2001

Mingling historical fact with fiction, Lalita Tademy's epic novel is based on the lives of four generations of African American women and is the result of years of exhaustive research and an obsessive odyssey to uncover her family's past.

Listen to an interview of Latlita Tademy from the Talking Books with QBR, radio Program, recorded June 14, 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.