One City One Book reads Cane River by Lalita Tademy at Books Inc. in the Castro October 4, 2007

The citywide book club is back and we're reading Cane River by Lalita Tademy. Buy your copy of Cane River at Books Inc. and we will donate 10% of the purchase to the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library.

Lalita Tademy was a corporate vice president at a Fortune "RM" 500 company when she decided to give notice and embark upon an odyssey to uncover her family's past. Through her exhaustive research, 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 and mingles it with fiction to weave a vivid account of what life was like for the four remarkable women who came before her. The result is a family saga that sweeps from the early days of slavery into a pre-Civil Rights South -- a unique and moving slice of America's past that will resonate with readers for generations to come.

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