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Helene Cooper: House at Sugar Beach
September 15, 2008
Helene Cooper writer, reporter

Award-winning journalist Helene Cooper discusses her new book, The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood, a memoir of her youth in Liberia and what occurred after she and her family were exiled to America.

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African | Authors | Culture | exile | Liberia | lost childhood | Non-Fiction | Race | Politics & Public Affairs
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Posted by Randy Lynn Rutledge March 9th, 2010 at 2:30pm

After listening to Helene Cooper's lecture, I plan to read "House at Sugar Beach." This will be my first step towards educating myself a bit more about the Back to Africa Movement, Liberia, and Samuel K. Doe's coup d'etat.
I have Leona Armstrong, a Facebook friend, to thank for briefly mentioning the time she spent helping out in Liberia.