In Search of Satisfaction
Dec 2010 · Anchor
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With In Search Of Satisfaction, Cooper gracefully portrays men and women, some good and others wickedly twisted, caught in their individual thickets of want and need on a once-grand plantation.
In Yoville, "a legal town-ship founded by the very rich for their own personal use," a freed slave named Josephus fathers two daughters, Ruth and Yinyang, by two different women. His desire to give Yinyang and himself money and opportunities oozes through the family like an elixir. In seeking the legacy left by their father, Ruth and Yinyang pull each other, their families, and their Yoville neighbors into a vortex of ever-powerful emotion.
In Yoville, "a legal town-ship founded by the very rich for their own personal use," a freed slave named Josephus fathers two daughters, Ruth and Yinyang, by two different women. His desire to give Yinyang and himself money and opportunities oozes through the family like an elixir. In seeking the legacy left by their father, Ruth and Yinyang pull each other, their families, and their Yoville neighbors into a vortex of ever-powerful emotion.
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Donna Pate
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13 June 2020
This is the 2nd time I’ve read this book. The first time was many years ago. I recommended it to my book club, and I couldn’t put it down. I cried many times while reading it, and while it is fictional it’s the story of the lives of many African Americans especially in the south in the early 1900’s, and reminiscent for many of us now. Read this book and learn that God is love, and all we need as we search for satisfaction. This book points that out in a very provocative, powerful, thoughtful way. Thank you J. California Cooper!
Sekina Jackson
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1 May 2015
This is my all-time favorite book! She gives you insight on how things really could've been. All the characters in the story take life as if you were there living it yourself! Excellent read!!
Tamara Forrest
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19 May 2018
I loved it!
About the author
J. California Cooper is the author of four novels and six collections of stories. She was honored as Black Playwright of the Year, and her work received the American Book Award, the James Baldwin Writing Award, and the Literary Lion Award from the American Library Association. She died in 2014.
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