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Interview: Lalita Tademy, author of Cane River

May 25, 2001

May 25, 2001

Lalita Tademy is the new patron saint of passionate and curious sorts. Always interested in her heritage, Tademy quit her job as a top executive at a Fortune 500 company, and threw herself into an "obsessive" two-year journey researching her family lineage. CANE RIVER, an epic debut novel spanning four generations of African-American women, is the product of that journey.