These sisters are so close such that they have developed a secret language and yet to the outside world, they cannot be sisters.īirdie is white while Cole is dark enough to mingle with other kids at Afrocentric School they attend. In this novel, Cole and Birdie are the daughters of a white mother and a black father, activists in the Civil Rights Movement in 1970’s Boston. The later part of the story narrates her struggles for identity and her desperate search for the missing members of her family.Ĭaucasia is the debut novel and a national bestseller written by Danzy Senna. Her debut novel Caucasia narrates the story of a young girl named Birdie Lee who is forced into the political underground by her mother and given an assumed identity. Later she attended Stanford University where she graduated with a B.A and then graduated with MFA in creative writing from the University of California. Her prolific work has been featured in several publications including New York Times, Vogue and The New Yorker. The Whiting Award winning author has published three novels, written a short story collection, a memoir and several essays themed on issues of motherhood, identity, race, and gender. Her debut work in the publishing realm Caucasia (1998) has been translated into several languages and also won various awards. Danzy Senna is American bestselling author and essayist.
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