by Danzy Senna
Worth reading, and worth discussing. This would be a good book for a reading circle.
Birdie Lee and Cole Lee, daughters of a black academic and a white radical, are separated when their mother's involvement in radical politics gains FBI attention: Cole, who looks black, goes off with their father and his new (black) girlfriend to Brazil (their father says he is sick of America), and...
Books Read in the Past:A sometimes-entertaining, sometimes-wrenching novel about race in America, as enacted by two biracial sisters with different skin color, one of whom appears more white, the other of whom, more black. Issues of identity, group membership, alienation, and family arise in a novel...
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