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Family is a pleasure to read. What might have been a much darker, angry book is refreshingly hopeful...and honest in its acknowledgment that good and bad may be found in almost everyone and every situation. -- Belles Lettres A celebration of language, and of the indomitability of the human spirit...Family is a beautiful piece of writing, pulsing almost operatically with cadence, poetry, and power. -- West Coast Review of Books Cooper whips up a fascinating tale. -- Detroit Free Press Many novels have been written about slavery, but this one is original, stirring, vividly personal, and painfully intense. -- Los Angeles Times Mesmerizing...Cooper weaves four wry, humorous, tragic tales that envelop and transcend time, offering hope and renewal at the same time they chronicle desolation and death. -- San Francisco Chronicle The sort of book that ought to be read out loud. Both eerie and saddening, [and] filled with tragedies, it is also about survival. In its strong rhythms and colloquial expression, this book is a living woman's monologue. -- New York Times What a voice...Cooper celebrates family, freedom, perseverance, life, and...powerful voices finally heard. -- Atlanta Constitution What most distinguishes Family...is its persistent affirmation of the power of the human spirit to do battle with evil--and to win, even if only for a while...It has a compelling voice. -- Chicago Tribune With power and grace, Cooper weaves the dialect, style, and myths of the South into a portrait of the hell that was slavery. -- Publishers Weekly

With power and grace, Cooper weaves the dialect, style, and myths of the South into a portrait of the hell that was slavery. -- Publishers Weekly What most distinguishes Family...is its persistent affirmation of the power of the human spirit to do battle with evil--and to win, even if only for a while...It has a compelling voice. -- Chicago Tribune What a voice...Cooper celebrates family, freedom, perseverance, life, and...powerful voices finally heard. -- Atlanta Constitution The sort of book that ought to be read out loud. Both eerie and saddening, [and] filled with tragedies, it is also about survival. In its strong rhythms and colloquial expression, this book is a living woman's monologue. -- New York Times Mesmerizing...Cooper weaves four wry, humorous, tragic tales that envelop and transcend time, offering hope and renewal at the same time they chronicle desolation and death. -- San Francisco Chronicle Many novels have been written about slavery, but this one is original, stirring, vividly personal, and painfully intense. -- Los Angeles Times Cooper whips up a fascinating tale. -- Detroit Free Press A celebration of language, and of the indomitability of the human spirit...Family is a beautiful piece of writing, pulsing almost operatically with cadence, poetry, and power. -- West Coast Review of Books Family is a pleasure to read. What might have been a much darker, angry book is refreshingly hopeful...and honest in its acknowledgment that good and bad may be found in almost everyone and every situation. -- Belles Lettres

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J. California Cooper (1931-2014) first found acclaim as a playwright. The author of seventeen plays, she was named Black Playwright of the Year in 1978. It was through her work in the theater that she caught the attention of acclaimed poet and novelist Alice Walker. Encouraged by Walker to turn her popular storytelling skills to fiction, Cooper wrote her first collection of short stories, A Piece of Mine, in 1984. Two more story collections followed, and in 1986 came Homemade Love, which won an American Book Award. Janina Edwards, an Earphone Award-winning narrator, is a graduate of the acting program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.

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