Cooper, J. California: 1931 - 2014
Family, 1991 - Information about the Book
- General Information
- The novel tells the story of multiple generations of African-American slaves from the point of view of the dead Clora, who killed herself and tried to kill her four children in order to escape slavery.
- Information from Wikipedia
- Facts
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- Reviews
- Publishers Weekly. "With power and grace, Cooper weaves the dialect, style and myths of the South into a portrait of the hell that was slavery."
- Washington Post. "The book suffers from a flat first-person narrative that does not allow the characters to take life." February 7, 1991
- Articles
- Storytelling from the Margins. pdf - 231pp