Lorene
Cary
Author | Playwright | Lecturer | Advocate
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"A thoroughly engaging memoir.… Cary invites readers into a complex extended family.… A distinctly American story."
Martha Anne Toll, NPR
Ladysitting: My Year with Nana at the End of Her Century
Praise & Reviews
"A profoundly moving, evocative work that puts a fully realized human face on the issue of slavery and its consequences.The Price of a Child marks the emergence of a powerful voice in American fiction."
Paula L. Woods, Philadelphia Inquirer
The Price of a Child
“Engaging. . . . Cary creates characters with such full-bodied life that their predicaments remain vivid.”
The New York Times Book Review
If Sons, Then Heirs
About Lorene Cary
Lorene Cary is author of the memoirs Ladysitting and Black Ice, three novels, and a book for young readers. She teaches at the University of Pennsylvania and has written a one-act opera of Ladysitting and a play, My General Tubman. She lives in Philadelphia.