Helene Cooper's Book: (House at Sugar Beach): A review

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Helene Cooper's "The House at Sugar Beach": A Book Review
By: Wynfred Russell
The House at Sugar Beach by Helene Cooper is a literary masterpiece; an astonishing and moving story about growing up in Liberia during its halcyon years. The reader is swept up in the smells, sights, and innocence of Cooper’s interrupted childhood. She tells the haunting story of her privileged Liberian family torn apart by violence, exile and civil war, and of her return to the country she fled over two decades ago in order to reconnect with her foster sister. It is a compelling idyll extracted from the broader pages of Liberia’s recent turbulent history. In the opening pages...
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