Family
Subtitle: a novel
By: J. California Cooper.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 1991
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
Subjects: African American women -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In this wise, beguiling, beautiful novel set in the era of the Civil War, an award-winning playwright and author paints a haunting portrait of a woman named Always, born a slave, and four generations of her African-American family. A slave mother, distraught that her children, sired by her master, might be sold away from her, attempts to poison them all.