Family

by Joan California Cooper

Family


At a glance:

The Novel

Family is a story of the slave Clora’s children and how her blood flows from its African roots around the world, thus intermingling with that of other races, nationalities, and classes. In the years before the Civil War, Clora gives her master six children, three of whom survive to adulthood. Clora herself commits suicide but “lives” as the narrator of her family’s tale. She glides through time to watch over her favorite child, Always.

Always, sold to Doak Butler, learns misery and hatred from her first day as his slave. In short order, he rapes...

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