Ebook {Epub PDF} Red River by Lalita Tademy

Lalita Tademy - Red River. Lalita Tademy weaves together history and the story of her own family to bring us an epic work of fiction, the dramatic, intertwining story of two families struggling to make a place for themselves in an America deeply divided after the Civil War. For the newly freed black residents of Colfax, Louisiana, the beginning of Reconstruction promised them the right to vote, own property, and . After reading Cane River some years ago, I have frequently looked out for more novels by Lalita Tademy and although years have passed, it's been well worth the wait. Whereas Cane River was based upon Tademy's maternal family history, Red River is based upon her father's family history/5().  · Red River. by Lalita Tademy. 1. Red River gives a rich impression of a family history expansively and proudly told. Yet in her "Author's Note," Lalita Tademy tells us that extracting the history of her father's ancestors was sometimes painful: "a different type of family story, lacking shape and enthusiasm, only stingily disclosed, rationed with vague hints or whispers, and only then with great .

Before listening to Red River, this day and place held no significance to me, but they are now Leaving her executive position at Sun Microsystems, Lalita Tademy diligently researched her family's history and found that her ancestors were among the casualties and survivors of that terrible event. Red River. Lalita Tademy, Preview. Buy multiple copies. Give this ebook to a friend. Hailed as "powerful," "accomplished," and "spellbinding," Lalita Tademy's first novel Cane River was a New York Times bestseller and the Oprah Book Club Summer Selection. Red River. audiobook (Unabridged) ∣ Tademy Family Chronicles, Book 2 · Tademy Family Chronicles. By Lalita Tademy. Visual indication that the title is Weaving together history and the story of her own family, Lalita Tademy, author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller Cane River, has written an.

When Cane River was published in , Lalita Tademy established herself as the chronicler of her own family's life, since their arrival here as slaves in the s. Mixing family history, fiction, and fact made the story rich and unforgettable enough that Cane River became an Oprah's Book Club®. Now, with Red River, Tademy has done it again. Writing is a second career for Tademy, who is a former vice-president of Sun Microsystems. -From Red River. Hailed as "powerful," "accomplished," and "spellbinding," Lalita Tademy's first novel Cane River was a New York Times bestseller and the Oprah Book Club Summer Selection. Now with her evocative, luminous style and painstaking research, she takes her family's story even further, back to a little-chronicled, deliberately-forgotten time and the struggle of three extraordinary generations of African-American men to forge brutal injustice and shattered promise into a. Lalita Tademy's second historical novel, RED RIVER is set during Reconstruction-era Louisiana a time period and subject matter often summarily skimmed in our history books. The sto LALITA TADEMY left the corporate world to immerse herself in tracing her family's history and writing her first historical novel, CANE RIVER.