Caucasia
by Danzy Senna
Taste attributes: dramateenfresh & originalunsavouryheavylinearemotive & stirringcoming of agesocial commentarycomplex relationship
Boxlist takeA serious novel, balanced on most other counts. Best if you like depth over escapism.
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Pace: balanced · Originality: fresh · Tone: dark · Weight: heavy · Realism: balanced · Story: balanced · Structure: linear · Look: balanced · Scale: balanced · Emotional punch: stirringHow we score
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3.5 / 5
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About This Book
Birdie and Cole are the daughters of a black father and a white mother, intellectuals and activists in the civil rights movement in Boston in the 1970s. The sisters are so close that they have created a private language, yet to the outside world they can't be sisters: while Cole looks like her father's daughter, Birdie appears to be white. For Birdie, Cole is the mirror in which she can see her own blackness.
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- Author
- Danzy Senna
- Published
- 1998
- Pages
- 413
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- Open Library
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