The House at Sugar Beach

September 29, 2008, 12:00pm - 1:00pm

In a new poignant memoir, New York Times journalist 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.

Copies of The House at Sugar Beach will be available for purchase.  The author will be available to sign books following the discussion.