The Big Read: Meet Bestselling Author Lalita Tademy
Hayward Public Library - Main Library, Wednesday, March 11, 2009 at 6pm
Lalita Tademy reads from Cane River and Red River.
The Hayward Public Library hosts Lalita Tademy, author of two historical novels — Cane River and Red River — based on her ancestors’ history in Louisiana. Cane River is an epic novel that follows the lives of four generations of African-American women. Beginning with Tademy’s great-great-great-great-grandmother, Elisabeth, Tademy presents a saga that sweeps from the early days of slavery through the Civil War and into a pre-Civil Rights South. Cane River was a 2001 Oprah Book Club selection. This event is part of the NEA-funded Hayward Big Read of A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines. Find out details about the Hayward Big Read at http://haywardbigread.wordpress.com/ (mostlyliterary)… (more)
The Hayward Public Library hosts Lalita Tademy, author of two historical novels — Cane River and Red River — based on her ancestors’ history in Louisiana. Cane River is an epic novel that follows the lives of four generations of African-American women. Beginning with Tademy’s great-great-great-great-grandmother, Elisabeth, Tademy presents a saga that sweeps from the early days of slavery through the Civil War and into a pre-Civil Rights South. Cane River was a 2001 Oprah Book Club selection. This event is part of the NEA-funded Hayward Big Read of A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines. Find out details about the Hayward Big Read at http://haywardbigread.wordpress.com/ (mostlyliterary)… (more)
1