Lalita Tademy's own journey is a remarkable one. Before writing Cane River she was one of the country's most promising young executives.
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Lalita Tademy
One of America's most Exciting Novelists, known for Cane River Her first book, Cane River
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It explores racism and slavery, and the saga of real, flesh-and-blood women making hard choices in the face of unimaginable loss, securing their identity and independence in order to face any obstacle, and inspiring all the generations to come. It has become an instant best-seller, and achieved a remarkable record of both critical and popular acclaim.
Lalita Tademy’s own journey is a remarkable one. Before writing Cane River she was one of the country’s most promising young executives, rising quickly through the ranks to become a Vice-President at Sun Microsystems. Featured in Fortune’s “People on the Rise” list, as well as Black Enterprise and Ebony, in 1998 she was named an African-American Innovator in the New Millenium at the Silicon Valley Tech Museum of Innovation. But her own interest in her family’s roots, and the ongoing issues of racism and women’s empowerment, plus her love of writing, led her to focus all of her energies on her writing career. America may have lost a great business-person, but it gained an important new literary voice.
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