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Reading at the Schomberg: Lalita Tademy

 

 

 

red river by Lalita Tademy
“Don’t nobody want to remember even now, decades removed, now things better some. Why stir up all that old mess from way back in 1873?” So muses freed slave narrator Polly in RED RIVER. Why, indeed, does Tademy stir up “all that old mess?” The former computer executive garnered great success with Cane River, a historical novel in which she chronicled four generations of female ancestors. But while Tademy was being celebrated, she was thinking about the whispers she’d heard of another set of family stories that her relatives stubbornly refused to discuss. So in her tireless, efficient way, she skillfully searched the past and “determined to try to imagine the lives” of these people too.

 

Author Talk and Signing

SCHOMBURG CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN BLACK CULTURE
515 Malcolm X Blvd @ 135^th Street
Harlem, NY

Thursday, January 11, 2007
6:00 PM

To order this book visit: Red River

Lalita Tademy is the author of the best-selling fact-based novel Cane River, which was published in 2001. She started work on RED RIVER before she completed the first book. Lalita Tademy lives in northern California with her husband.