![]() ![]() The extraordinary national bestseller that launched Danzy Senna's literary career, Caucasia is a modern classic, at once a powerful coming of age story and a groundbreaking work on identity and race in America. Haunted by the loss of her sister, she sets out a desperate search for the family that left her behind. But for Birdie, home will always be Cole. Caucasia was a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and was named a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. Soon Birdie and her mother are on the road as well, drifting across the country in search of a new home. One night Birdie watches her father and his new girlfriend drive away with Cole. Set in 1970s Boston, this impressively assured debut avoids the usual. Since her 1998 dbut novel, Caucasia, a stark story about two biracial sisters, Senna, like Ross before her, has developed her own kind of insobriety, one focussed on comically eviscerating. Despite their differences, Cole is Birdie's confidant, her protector, the mirror by which she understands herself. Riverhead Books, 24.95 (353pp) ISBN 978-1-57322-091-0. The sisters are so close that they speak their own language, yet Birdie, with her light skin and straight hair, is often mistaken for white, while Cole is dark enough to fit in with the other kids at school. "Superbly illustrates the emotional toll that politics and race take … Haunting." - The New York Times Book Reviewīirdie and Cole are the daughters of a black father and a white mother, intellectuals and activists in the Civil Rights Movement in 1970s Boston. ![]()
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