A reporter's long journey home

In her new memoir, journalist Helene Cooper describes her privileged childhood in Liberia during a violent civil war, the trauma that prompted the family's flight to America, and memories of the adopted sister she left behind in Africa.

Guests

• Helene Cooper: White House correspondent for the New York Times. Her new memoir is called "The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood."

More from MPR

• Minnesota human rights group project documents plight of Liberian refugees
  June 15, 2009
• Liberian president visits Minnesota
  April 10, 2009
• Obama extends status of Liberians
  March 20, 2009

Resources

• Helene Cooper's NY Times articles