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Caucasia by Danzy Senna (1999, Paperback, Reprint) 
Caucasia by Danzy Senna (1999, Paperback, Reprint)

 
Caucasia by Danzy Senna (1999, Paperback, Reprint)

Author: Danzy Senna
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Publication Date: 1999-02-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1573227161
ISBN-13: 9781573227162
Product ID: EPID720999
Description: A debut novel about the difficulties of growing up in a biracial family. Birdie, the narrator, is the daughter of a Boston Yankee and a black intellectual who met him at Harvard. While Birdie can pass for white, her sister Cole is darker...
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A debut novel about the difficulties of growing up in a biracial family. Birdie, the narrator, is the daughter of a Boston Yankee and a black intellectual who met him at Harvard. While Birdie can pass for white, her sister Cole is darker and usually considered black. Both Birdie and Cole are taunted by their black classmates at school, and Birdie is favored over Cole by their white relatives. Eventually Birdie's parents separate and Birdie goes to live with her mother, while Cole moves to Brazil with her father.

Details
Publication Date:1999-02-01
Edition Description:Reprint

Size
Length:413 pages
Height:8.3 in
Width:5.0 in
Thickness:0.8 in
Weight:12.0 oz

Publisher's Note
"Lucid and magnificent." --James McBride, author of The Color of Water "Senna's remarkable first novel [will] cling to your memory. There's Birdie, who takes after her mother's white, New England side of the family--light skin, straight hair. There's her big sister, Cole, who takes after her father, a radical black intellectual. It's the early seventies, and black-power politics divide their parents, who divide the sisters; Cole disappears with their father, and Birdie goes underground with their mother...Senna tells this coming-of-age tale with impressive beauty and power." --Newsweek "[An] absorbing debut novel...Senna superbly illustrates the emotional toll that politics and race take on one especially gutsy young girl's development as she makes her way through the parallel limbos between black and white and between girl and young woman...Senna gives new meaning to the twin universal desires for a lost childhood and a new adult self by recounting Birdie's struggle to become someone when she can look and act like anyone." --New York Times Book Review "Brilliant...a finely nuanced story that explores the matter of race through the eyes and heart of another white black girl."--Ms.

A sensitive coming-of-age bestseller about two sisters divided by politics and race at the beginning of the 1970s.

Industry Reviews
"An accomplished novel of issues that doesn't offer any easy solutions but does poignantly evoke the pain and paradox of those caught in the racial crossfire."
Kimmelman

"[T]his absorbing, affecting first novel explores the politics of skin color as played out in a biracial family."
Sandhu

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