Lalita Tademy

Paul Cortez
11/25/16
Book Review Lalita Tademy is the amazing and educated Author of Red River. She comes from a background that was far from different than what her parents grew up in. Lalita was born and raised in Berkley, Ca and her parents are from western Louisiana. Before becoming a full-time author, Lalita was Vice President and General Manager of several high technology companies spending over a decade running business units within large corporations. Even before becoming a great writer that she is now, Lalita was a successful woman at her career and was featured in Fortune’s “People on the Rise” list, as well as Black Enterprise and Ebony. She was also named an African-American Innovator in the New Millennium at the Silicon Valley Tech Museum of Innovation. Lalita Tademy was so good at what she did as an author because she was highly educated in history and knew exactly what she was writing about. Not only was she educated of history but she also had a passion for it. Her own personal interest in family’s roots and the ongoing issues of racism and women’s
empowerment, led her to focus all of her energies on her second career which was being a writer. She then became the New York Times Bestselling author of the three historical novels including of Red River, Cane River, and Citizens Creek. Tademy’s historic passion led her to having a pattern of consistently writing to strictly only history novels. Her high range of strong reliable critics of fame all ranged from being starred in the People Magazine, O Magazine, More Magazine, Good Housekeeping, The Today Show, The Early Show, CNN, and the Oprah Winfrey Show. Tademy has also even appeared as a speaker for the Library of Congress and National Book Festival, the California Governor’s Conference for Women, African American Librarians, National Association of Principals for Girls, and as a San Francisco Library Laureate. Her high range from positive critics makes her a trustworthy and dependable author. Lalita Tademy’s writing in her novel, Red River, is written with strong vivid detail that brings the readers into such depth into the story that it almost makes you feel involved in the historic time.
The way she writes is highly effective because it doesn’t make you want to stop reading nor does it bore you, it keeps you interested and involved in the story and makes you want to continue reading. The story moves fluidly as she doesn’t fail to leave any important out or doesn’t jump from one story to the next but instead tells the story thoroughly. While I read the story I truly began to care for the characters involved. I began to grow remorse for them and sympathized for what hardships they had to go through. I was able to feel for them and their emotions due to how Tademy told their story so clearly with such detail that she was able to win me over with all her characters that she
involved. Tademy proposes plenty of different themes throughout Red River, however, the main ones were of racism, freedom, and courage. This was a time where equality did not exist and plenty of problems thst arise due to the separations of races. Red River takes us readers to both a place and era where freedom was seen as a luxury and gives us what must be the truest account of those days of failed reconstruction even though it's fictionalized. Beginning with so much action and suspense, Red River winds down to a more mundane family history in the end but it shows us how impossible dreams can be realized and how we can change our part of the world with faith, vision and persistence.