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  <read_at>Mon Jul 07 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A great quick read. A story of triumph and tragedy told from the viewpoint of a ghost. A woman tries to save her children from sharing the same fate as hers, the dehumanizing and cruel life of a slave, and tries to poison her children. Unfortunately, she dies but is stuck in limbo and watches as her...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27157517">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A wonderful and poignant read. The story is told by a slave woman who is so distraught at the thought of her children enduring the same hardships as she does tries to poison them and herself but tragically she is the only one who ended up dying. She is stuck in limbo and watches her children grow up...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52557140">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Cooper's narrative voice speaks directly to me.  This was my first and from there I was hooked.  Each one of hers deserved a re-read.  Good weekend reading, good in line reading but you may lose your place. I am always waiting on her next.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Story of a slave woman and her “family”, Always, Peaches and Plum. Narrated by Clora, a spirit, mother of Always. Historical, somewhat, decent story.<br/><br/>What I learned:<br/>Choose your children's names wisely.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This teacher is my favroite author! There's no lesson untouched in her work! Get up on her, because she's up there with Morrison, Angelou, Hurston and other Phenomenal writers. Classic, She is!!!]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the most powerful books I have read in a long time. It's really easy to read (you can probably finish it one day) but it's the content that got me. Especially unique about this novel is the way in which it is narrated - from the perspective of an African-American mother who is looking down fr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6046004">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had to read this book for an African American Lit class and loved it.  The story is told from the voice of the mother who was a slave.  One night, when everyone else was asleep, she took her kids out to the field behind the house and proceeded to poison them and herself.  However, in an ill twist ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14355259">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is so inspirational on how we should look back to our ancestors and their lives.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I would recommend anything by J California Cooper.  She is my FAVORITE author!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Loved it from the very first page. One of my favorite authors.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The majority of this novel follows the traditional trajectory of a slave narrative, similar to Dessa Rose or other canonized texts.  However, the author deals with the issue of racial phenotypes and gradations of color in a provocative way.  The novel troubles popular understandings of racial signif...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15715543">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was a nice surprise. It is not very long and which was good because when I started reading it I thought it was the most depressing book I'd ever read. The story is told by a slave woman who commits suicide out of hopeless desperation. She then oversees the lives of her children as they gro...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23773736">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[a MUST read]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Clora is such an interesting character.  Through this book you watch her live as a slave.  She is raped by her master and gives birth to a son at the same time as the master's wife.  She switches the babies at birth and no one knows.  She watches as the babies grow and how differently they are treat...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14792304">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of my favorite books of all times. <br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This very short novel packs a wallop of emotion...a tragic tale of slavery from the lips of a dead slave keeping watch over her children, some of whom were taken from her. She follows their lives, cries at their miseries, laughs with pride at their victories. J. California Cooper writes in the manne...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6753429">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is great. The story was told from the point of voice of the mother who was a slave at that time period. She was trying to poison herself and her childern but she was the only person that died. Throughout the whole story she watches over her children. This book was sad but also educationall...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14456349">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An amazing African American novel told by a slave woman who has gone to heaven.  This novel tells the story of each of her children and what happens to them after the Emancipation Proclmation.<br/><br/>Ms. Cooper is also a playwright and short story writer, but I find her novels of more interest a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5799716">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a heart wrenching slave narrative.  To me this book confirms the strength of the human spirit to persist and overcome even the most inhumane circumstances.<br/><br/>J. California Cooper's writing is transcendent, poetic and powerful. Reminds me of a modern day Zora Neale Hurston.<br/><br/>...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Its' been a while since I read this book, but I crave this author and I am always first in line when one of her books is published. I have never been to a book signing for her but I love her so much I purchased first edition signed copies for my personal library.]]></body>
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