Red River [Paperback] Tademy, Lalita

Lalita Tademy follows up her bestselling debut *Cane River* with this powerful historical novel set in post-Reconstruction Louisiana. When a white supremacist massacre tears through Colfax in 1873, two families — one black, one Creole — must navigate the violent collapse of their fragile freedoms. Tademy, who left her Silicon Valley career to trace her own Louisiana roots, brings meticulous research and raw emotional honesty to this story of survival, betrayal, and resilience. The novel spans four generations as her ancestors fight to hold onto land, dignity, and each other against a rising tide of racial terror. For readers who loved *The Underground Railroad* or *Beloved*, this is Southern historical fiction that doesn't flinch.