Event Listing - Literary Arts

Thu Nov 1, 2007

Lalita Tademy

Location	Date and Time
Books Inc. in Opera Plaza 601 Van Ness San Francisco, CA 94103 district: Civic Center	Thu Nov 1, 2007 (7:00 PM)

Description

San Francisco’s One City One Book month long group discussions conclude this evening with author Lalita Tademy leading the discussion of her amazing bestseller, Cane River.

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.