J. California Cooper

Offers a collection of stories full of wonder at the mystery of life, the hardness of fate, and the whimsical humor the Lord indulges in

Homemade Love

Family

A Novel

The Wake of the Wind

Recounts the life of Josephus, a freed slave whose desire for wealth for him and his illegitimate daughter affects the whole community

In Search of Satisfaction

A collection of short stories features women encountering romance, heartbreak, struggle, and faith, from a self-proclaimed femme fatale to a woman beginning life anew at middle age. Reprint.

Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime

In the early twentieth century, Irene and Val build a life for themselves in Wideland while also allowing neighbors Bertha and Joseph to live on their land, and the two families cope with changing times and fortunes.

Life is Short But Wide

Some Soul to Keep

For generations Eula Too’s family has been making a journey North, year after year, step by painful step; and she’s determined to be the one to make it all the way to Chicago. In and out of school, taking care of her fourteen brothers and sisters, she can see no way out. But when a new family burden threatens to overwhelm her, she at last leaves for the city, only to find that her life gets even tougher. Ranging from the Deep South at the turn of the century, to a diverse contemporary town filled with people striving for a better life, Some People, Some Other Place is J. California Cooper at her irresistible, surprising best.

Some People, Some Other Place

Stories

A Piece of Mine

When the slaves' emancipation reaches Texas, a black woman named Lifee and her family rely on their extraordinary resilience and ingenuity to face the reverberations of slavery and stake out a farm and a home of their own. Reprint.

Much has been written about the institution of slavery. But with "Family", Cooper has taken the slave narrative and recreated it as an epic, yet collo quial, poem. "Mesmerizing . . . Cooper weaves four wry, humorous, tragic tales that envelop and transcend time, offering hope and renewal at the same time they chronicle desolation and death".--"San Francisco Chronicle". Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Spanning the years just before and after the Civil War, this saga of an African-American family centers on Always, a resourceful woman born into slavery, and her mother Chlora, as they endure and prevail

A fourth collection of stories by the award-winning author.

The Matter Is Life

The extraordinary debut short story collection from the award-winning author of Family and Life is Short But Wide.

J. California Cooper writes with a transparent clarity and such exuberant energy that her characters leap off the page, bursting with stories they've got to tell--stories of simple people, stories of families and fate, of love and marriage, of death and the triumph of the human spirit.

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