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 …show more content…
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
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 …show more content…
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