The Wake of the Wind
The Wake of the Wind
Author: J. California Cooper
Desc: A dramatic and thought-provoking novel of one family's triumph in the face of the hardships and challenges of the post-Civil War South. The Wake of the Wind J. California Cooper's third novel is her most penetrating look yet at the challenges that generations of African Americans have had to overcome in order to carve out a home for themselves and their families. Set in Texas in the waning years of the Civil War the novel tells the dramatic story of a remarkable heroine Lifee and her husband Mor. When Emancipation finally comes to Texas Mor Lifee and the extended family they create from other slaves who are also looking for a home and a future set out in search of a piece of land they can call their own. In the face of constant threats they manage not only to survive but to succeed--their crops grow their children thrive they educate themselves and others. Lifee and Mor pass their intelligence determination and talents along to their children the next generation to surge forward. At once tragic and triumphant this is an epic story that captures with extraordinary authenticity the most important struggle of the last hundred years.