Danzy Senna
1) New people
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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
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As the twentieth century draws to a close, Maria is at the start of a life she never thought possible. She and Khalil, her college sweetheart, are planning their wedding. They are the perfect couple, "King and Queen of the Racially Nebulous Prom." Their skin is the same shade of beige. They live together in a black bohemian enclave in Brooklyn, where Khalil is riding the wave of the first dot-com boom and Maria is plugging away at her dissertation,...
2) Caucasia
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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
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A novel on children of mixed marriages. The protagonists are two sisters in Boston, daughters of a black professor and a white woman. One daughter passes for black and attends black school, while her sister passes for white and attends white school. But the classmates know and when it comes to bigotry, equality reigns among the races.
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