A compelling look at being black and being white, Caucasia deserves to be read all over."- Glamour "Brilliant.a finely nuanced story that explores the matter of race through the eyes and heart of another white black girl."- Ms. 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 " 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."- The New York Times Book Review "Extraordinary.A cross between Mona Simpson's Anywhere But Here and James McBride's The Color of Water, this story of a young girl's struggle-to find her family, her roots, her identity-transcends race even while examining it. There's her big sister, Cole, who takes after her father, a radical black intellectual.
There's Birdie, who takes after her mother's white, New England side of the family-light skin, straight hair.
"Lucid and magnificent."-James McBride, author of The Color of Water "The visual conundrums woven through Danzy Senna's remarkable first novel cling to your memory. 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. 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. Despite their differences, Cole is Birdie's confidant, her protector, the mirror by which she understands herself. 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. Haunting." - The New York Times Book Review Birdie and Cole are the daughters of a black father and a white mother, intellectuals and activists in the Civil Rights Movement in 1970s Boston. "Superbly illustrates the emotional toll that politics and race take.
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