ABOUT
THE BOOK

Set among the lush, swampy plantations of deepest Louisiana, Cane River follows the lives of four generations of women from the time of slavery in the early 1800s, sweeping through the American Civil War and into the pre-civil rights South.
From down-trodden, philosophical Suzette, who came into womanhood as a slave, to educated pale-skinned Emily, whose high ambitions born in freedom became her downfall, these remarkable women’s struggles reflect the tragedy of slavery and, ultimately, the triumph of the human spirit.