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Book Review of Mama Flora's Family

Mama Flora's Family
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An excellent fictional narrative of the life of a black woman born into a share cropping community in Tennessee. This novel traces the stories of Flora and her children and grandchildren through the first half of the 20th Century into the ideas and struggles of the 1960's. Readers get a glimpse into the south (Tennessee), the north (Chicago) the east (New York) and even Africa.

Captivating, honest, redeeming. Very readable. I highly recommend this book.