Mama Flora's Family

By David Stevens and Alex Haley

Book Overview

A family saga focuses on matriarch Mama Flora, an African American woman whose husband dies at the hand of white landowners. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684834715
• ISBN13: 9780684834719
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.6"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 and higher

Customer Reviews

A Very Moving, Poignant Multigenerational Epic!

At the center of Mama Flora's Family is the indomitable spirit of Mama Flora, the matriarch of an extraordinary family of destitute Tennessee sharecroppers. The characters are so real and believable it made this reader feel that I was right there with them experiencing all their trials and tribulations, as well as the joys. This book is much more than a poignant, hard-to-put-down story of a Mama Flora and her descendants from 1920 to the late 1990s. It, for the most part, effectively weaves into the plot much of what has transpired in American/African-American history during this time period (e.g., life for African-Americans in the South, the rise of the Civil Rights movement, the Black Panthers, the Nation of Islam, the Viet Nam war, political repression under Idi Amin, etc). Mama Flora's Family is a rich, resonant family novel that cuts across the barriers that divide us to touch the hearts of people of all races and backgrounds. I highly recommend this excellent, emotionally-packed posthumous novel written by David Stevens based on Alex Haley's notes and research.

An inspirational story

This novel is one of the best I have read. Alex Haley and Stevens express a kind of compassion from a grandmother/mother that no one could do better. It's a very emotional book, and touches everyone that has ever experienced a good book. Once you start it, you can't put it down!

A Great Story

This book made you feel apart of it. I loved it! I loved the history, the story, the emotions and how it wove a story of a loving family working their way through life. This is a must read.

Great book-one of Haley's best

Pretend that there is a really good review here. I loved reading this novel. It is one that is vary hard to put down because you can't help wondering what is going to happen next.

One of Haley's greatest works!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It was a wonderful story if you loved roots and queen you will love this book.I can't beleive David Stevens wrote this book from Alex Haley's notes. Wonderful. Can't express in words.Just read it.