Dec. 27th, 2010

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Born in Liberia and descended from the nation's founders, Helene Cooper lived there for 14 years as a member of the wealthy elite. She knew her homeland -- its unique history as a colony populated by former U.S. slaves, its sights, its tastes, its scents, its joys and its dangers. When Liberia's bloody coup d'etat finally came, Cooper had to leave a home she knew well.

But as she would come to realize, she did not know it nearly so well as she thought she did.

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tags: a: cooper helene, genre: memoir, author: black (Liberian), setting: Liberia & United States

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