Ebook {Epub PDF} The House at Sugar Beach by Helene Cooper

The House at Sugar Beach is an autobiographical novel (it may also be considered quite simply a novel) written by the journalist and diplomatic correspondent of the New York Times, Helene Cooper. Cooper is a woman of Liberian origin who, over time, acquired American citizenship. The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood () is a memoir written by Obama-era New York Times White House correspondent Helene Cooper. The book was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Best Autobiography, a finalist for the Borders Original Voices Award, and was labeled a notable book by both The New York Times and The Washington Post.  · The House at Sugar Beach is a combination family memoir, history of Liberia, and gut-wrenching first-hand account of what it was like to live through a coup d’état. Born in Liberia in , Helene Cooper led a life of comfort and privilege as “Congo,” a term for descendants of the repatriated free blacks that arrived in West Africa from the United States in the ’s/5.

Helene Cooper's 'The House At Sugar Beach' Journalist Helene Cooper fled her home country of Liberia as a young woman when civil war erupted in She details the journey that took her back to. The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood Helene Cooper, Simon Schuster pp. ISBN Summary Helene Cooper is "Congo," a descendant of two Liberian dynasties — traced back to the first ship of freemen that set sail from New York in to found Monrovia. This macabre marker is the house at Sugar Beach. In her masterly memoir, Helene Cooper brings us back to the halcyon years when Sugar Beach, her family's home, embodied the elite privilege and.

This was our house at Sugar Beach: a futuristic, three-level verandahed s-era behemoth with a mammoth glass dome on top, visible as soon as you turned onto the dirt road junction a mile away. Helene Cooper's 'The House At Sugar Beach' Journalist Helene Cooper fled her home country of Liberia as a young woman when civil war erupted in She details the journey that took her back to. The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood () is a memoir written by Obama-era New York Times White House correspondent Helene Cooper. The book was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Best Autobiography, a finalist for the Borders Original Voices Award, and was labeled a notable book by both The New York Times and The Washington Post.