The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.42 (926 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0743266250 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 354 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-01-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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The stories themselves are fascinating, but a flatness prevails—perhaps one that mirror's the author's experience. (May)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Cooper is convinced that somehow our world would right itself. A journalist-as-a-young-woman narrative unfolds as Cooper reports the career path that led her from local to national papers in the U.S. Cooper combines deeply personal and wide-ranging political strands in her memoir. On Cooper's 14th birthday, her mother gives
Is well worth reading The House at Sugar Beach. Paul Faraway The House at Sugar Beach is an autobiographical novel (it may also be considered quite simply a novel) written by the journalist and diplomatic correspondent of the New York Times, Helene Cooper. Cooper is a woman of Liberian origin who, over time, acquired American citizenship.In the novel, Cooper recounts her childhood and adolescence whilst she provides us with a historical account of the birth of . "A Great Storywith personal connections" according to Four Bears. I spent the summer of 1965 in Monrovia, Liberia. My daughter was born there in August. The Peace Corps had sent me in June because the maternity hospital in Sierra Leone had problems with childbed fever. I worked in the Peace Corps office as office assistant to the doctor and nurse. In the Sinkor section of Monrovia, I went to Cooper's Clinic. The doctor was a short, middle aged man who came to check . "A look at Liberia after settlement by American Blacks" according to Rosa J. Hilliard. This book was an insight as to the thought processes that decendents of Freed black settlement of Liberia. The European thinking of the free people of color/ and freed slaves towards the natives of the land named Liberia.With the true history shrouded in secrecy/untruths/half truths, and downright lies, it was refreshing to read what (according to a daughter of the country) what actually happened, or
Helene grew up at Sugar Beach, a twenty-two-room mansion by the sea. Cooper’s daughter.” For years the Cooper daughters—Helene, her sister Marlene, and Eunice—blissfully enjoyed the trappings of wealth and advantage. When Helene was eight, the Coopers took in a foster child—a common custom among the Liberian elite. At once a deeply personal memoir and an examination of a violent and stratified country, The House at Sugar Beach tells of tragedy, forgiveness, and transcendence with unflinching honesty and a survivor's gentle humor. At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill she found her passion in journalism, eventually becoming a reporter for the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. And at its heart, it is a story of Helene Cooper’s long voyage home.. It was also an African childhood, filled with knock foot games and hot pepper soup, heartmen and neegee. The Coopers and the entire Cong