Mama Flora's Family [SEP] distributor
her sleep. Ruthana helps her cousin Willy raise the children.
Reception.
Critical reception for the book was mixed, with Kirkus Reviews calling the book "an affecting if superficial take on recent racial history". "Publishers Weekly" mostly panned "Mama Flora's Family", stating that the book lost "the human touch that animates the novel's first half".
Miniseries.
In November 1998 a two part miniseries adaptation of "Mama Flora's Family" aired on CBS. The miniseries starred Cicely
Mama Flora's Family
Mama Flora's Family is a 1997 historical fiction novel by Alex Haley and David Stevens. The story spans from the 1920s to the 1970s as it follows Flora, a daughter of poor black Mississippi sharecroppers, and her descendants. Haley died before completing the novel, with Stevens finishing the story line.
In 1998 the book was adapted into a made for TV miniseries of the same name.
Synopsis.
The young Flora meets the wealthy Lincoln Flemming at a dance one night. Lincoln wants