The House on Sugar Beach
Helene Cooper
#2493 of 3,809 books · #900 in Biography & Memoir
Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography (2008).
The author traces her childhood in war-torn Liberia and her reunion with a foster sister who had been left behind when her family fled the region.
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- ISBN-13
- 9780743266246
- Genre
- Topics
- LiberiaCivil warFamily and reunion
Awards
- National Book Critics Circle Award for AutobiographyShortlistedMajor(2008)
Other awarded books from Helene Cooper
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