The House at Sugar Beach Author:Helene Cooper Helene Cooper tells the story of her privileged Liberian childhood cut brutally short by a bloody 1980 coup. Her family's escape and survival, and twenty-three years later her return to her native country to find the foster sister her family left behind.
I loved this book. There is a powerful message that this child born on a war-torn continent can come to America and succeed at the highest level. Helene Cooper is inspirational and a really good writer.
This was a very interesting book. The author is now the White House correspondent for the New York Times. Her personal story of life in Liberia is very touching. If I get time before someone requests this book I will read it again.