The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood
by:
Helene Cooper (author)
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781436164412
Publish date: 2008
Publisher: Recorded Books
Minutes: 9
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Cultural,
Africa,
Book Club,
Politics,
Biography Memoir,
International
I loved reading this book. It’s a memoir of the author’s privileged childhood in Liberia, the early days of civil war there and her family’s flight, and her journey of building a life in another country and ultimately coming to terms with her homeland. Helene Cooper is an award-winning journalist, a...
DNF at 100 pages, but those who did finish said it got very good had I hung in for another 30 or so pages past the childhood reminiscing.
Liberia.Cooper's memoir of growing up in, fleeing from, and returning to make her peace with Liberia. Some reviewers have been unhappy that Cooper did not focus more on Liberia's internal conflict, but this is a memoir, not a journalistic appraisal of a country's political and social problems. It's ...
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