Description: Lalita Tademy was a successful corporate vice president at a Fortune 500 company when she decided to give notice & embark upon what would become an obsessive odyssey to uncover her family's past. Through exhaustive research, interviews, & the help of professional genealogists, she would find herself transported back to the early 1800s, to an isolated, close-knit rural community on Louisiana's Cane River. Here, Tademy takes historical fact & mingles it with fiction to weave a vivid & dramatic account of what life was like for the four remarkable women who came before her. Beginning with Tademy's great-great-great-great grandmother Elisabeth, this is a family saga that sweeps from the early days of slavery through the Civil War into a pre-Civil Rights South--a unique & moving slice of America's past that will resonate with readers for generations to come.

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