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RECORD NUMBER: 51 OF 134Main Title | Family : a novel / | |||||||||||
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Author | Cooper, J. California. | |||||||||||
Publisher | Doubleday, | |||||||||||
Year Published | 1991 | |||||||||||
OCLC Number | 21523735 | |||||||||||
ISBN | 0385411715; 9780385411714; 0385411723; 9780385411721 | |||||||||||
Subjects | African American women--Fiction | |||||||||||
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Edition | 1st ed. | |||||||||||
Collation | 231 pages ; 22 cm | |||||||||||
Notes | R6 Reading Club Title
Donated by the Region 6 Black Employment Program. |
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Contents Notes | In this wise, beguiling, beautiful novel set in the era of the Civil War, an award-winning playwright and author paints a haunting portrait of a woman named Always, born a slave, and four generations of her African-American family. A slave mother, distraught that her children, sired by her master, might be sold away from her, attempts to poison them all. |