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Cooper is a descendant of the Congo People--the elite who once governed Liberia--and can trace her ancestry to the freed American slaves who colonized the country in the eighteen-hundreds. In 1980, she and her family fled Monrovia following a coup; her mother was raped and, on her fourteenth birthday, a cabinet-minister cousin was publicly executed. Decades later, as a reporter in Washington, D.C., she is impelled by stories from a ...