Wow! This was the best find at my Goodwill store. Of course, I loved the cover. Old pictures on a cover always grab me. So I picked it up and read the jacket. Then I bought the book and read it.
If you like ancestry.com or anything genealogical, then you will enjoy this book as you follow the lives of "four astonishing women who battled vast injustices to create a legacy of hope and achievement" from 1799 to around 1936. It began in slavery, survived the Civil War and emancipation.
You will get caught up in the minds, hearts and souls of these women who were young mothers, lived to be grandmothers and great grandmothers keeping their line alive through hardship and determination with a goal of making a better future for their girls to pass through as they got whiter and whiter.
But ... it doesn't end there.
So pick this novel up by Lalita Tademy who found herself "swept up in an obsessive two-year odyssey" "leaving her corporate career for the little Louisiana farming community of Cane River". Lalita found her family's roots here "on a medium-sized Creole plantation owned by a family named Derbanne".
This is a good one, so find it at your local library and be prepared to escape into the lines of this compelling family story. You won't be disappointed.
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