The House at Sugar Beach

The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood by Helene Cooper, diplomatic correspondent for The New York Times, offers a compelling vehicle for advancing these objectives. In Sugar Beach, Cooper tells the gripping story of her coming of age in Liberia during the 1970s. A member of one of Liberia's most prominent families whose roots led directly to the first American freemen who settled in the country in the 1820s, Cooper enjoyed a privileged life — including servants, a 22-room beach house, and a villa in Spain — that unraveled quickly and violently during the coup of 1980. Forced to flee Liberia, she found herself adrift as an immigrant in the American South, struggling both to understand her new life and forge her identity.

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