Cane River
by Lalita Tademy

From back cover:

Abridged Cassette Audiobook
Read by Shari Belafonte, Jo Marie Payton and Edwina Moore

This is a history never before told, an epic novel of four generations of African-American women, a work based on the author's actual past.

It is on a medium-sized Creole plantation owned by a family named Derbanne that the stories of four astonishing women who battled vast injustices to create a legacy of hope and achievement came to lilfe. They were women whose lives began in slavery, who weathered the Civil War, and who grappled with the contradictions of emancipation through the turbulent early years of the twentieth century. Through it all, they fought to unite their family and forge success on their own terms.

Amid small farmhouses and a tightly knit community of French-speaking slaves, free people of color, and whites, Tademy's great-great-great-grandmother Elisabeth would bear both a proud heritage and the yoke of slavery. Her youngest daughter, Suzette, would be the first to discover the promis -- and heartbreak -- of freedom. Suzette's strong-willed daughter Philomene would use determination born of tragedy to reunite her famly and gain unheard-of economic independence. And Emily, Philomene's spirited daughter, would fight to secure her children's just due and preserve their future against dangerous odds.

Cane River
by Lalita Tademy

ISBN: 1586210629
ISBN-13: 9781586210625
Publisher: Time Warner Audiobooks
Publication Date: 2001
Format: 4 cassettes / 6 hours
Book Type: New Bargain Book
Condition: New, No remainder mark

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