In Search of Satisfaction

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With InSearch Of Satisfaction, Coopergracefully portrays men and women, some good and otherswickedly twisted, caught in their individualthickets of want and need on a once-grand plantation. In Yoville, "a legal town-ship founded by thevery rich for their own personal use," afreed slave named Josephus fathers two daughters,Ruth and Yinyang, by two different women. Hisdesire to give Yinyang and himself money andopportunities oozes through the family like an elixir. In seeking the legacy left by their father, Ruth and Yinyang pull each other, their families, and their Yoville neighbors into a vortex of ever-powerful emotion.

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"Marvelously textured and layered with voices that weave in and out of each other but never collide." --Los Angeles Times

"Cooper's...style is deceptively simple anddirect, and the vale of tears in which hercharacters reside is never so deep that a rich chuckleat a foolish person's foolishness cannot be heard." --Alice Walker

"An old-fashioned morality tale that quickly engages the reader in the lives of a large cast of unforgettable characters." --The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"The wicked and righteous reap their just rewards in Cooper's calamitous, unabashedly preachy family epic." --The Plain Dealer

"Cooper writesabout small-town life with a verve that nearly bursts off the page."
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Author Bio

J. California Cooper is the author of four novels and six collections of stories. She was honored as Black Playwright of the Year, and her work received the American Book Award, the James Baldwin Writing Award, and the Literary Lion Award from the American Library Association. She died in 2014.