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The Wake of the Wind: A Novel Young Adult Fiction / Social Themes - Dating & Sex / Social Themes - Pregnancy / Girls & Women she finds a group ofA dramatic and thought provoking novel of one family's triumph in the face of the hardships and challenges of the post Civil War South. The Wake of the Wind , J. California Cooper's third novel, is her most penetrating look yet at the challenges that generations of African Americans have had to overcome in order to carve out a home for themselves and their families. Set in Texas in the waning years of the Civil War, the novel tells the dramatic story