A New York Times bestseller and Oprah’s Book Club Pick-the unique and deeply moving saga of four generations of African-American women whose journey from slavery to freedom begins on a Creole plantation in Louisiana.

Is Cane River fiction or nonfiction?

584 pp. Mingling historical fact with fiction, Lalita Tademy’s epic novel is based on the lives of four generations of African American women and is the result of years of exhaustive research and an obsessive odyssey to uncover her family’s past. (From the publisher.)

Where was the movie The River filmed?

” ”The River” was filmed in Eastern Tennessee, and the plight of the family portrayed was echoed in the stories the crew heard daily from the farmers who served as extras on the set, and those they met during the month they lived in Tennessee, prior to production.