At once a powerful coming-of-age story and a groundbreaking work on identity and race in America, ' Caucasia deserves to be read all over' ( Glamour). Passing as the daughter and wife of a deceased Jewish professor, Birdie and her mother finally make their home in New Hampshire.ĭesperate to find Cole, yet afraid of betraying her mother and herself to some unknown danger, Birdie must learn to navigate the white world-so that when she sets off in search of her sister, she is ready for what she will find. The next morning-in the belief that the Feds are after them-Birdie and her mother leave everything behind: their house and possessions, their friends, and-most disturbing of all-their identity. Compare Caucasia flights across hundreds of providers Find the cheapest month or even day of the year to fly Book the best fare with no fees Flight deals to Caucasia Looking for a cheap last-minute deal or the best return flight to Caucasia Find the biggest savings on one-way and return tickets right here. One night Birdie watches her father and his girlfriend drive away with Cole-they have gone to Brazil, she will later learn, where her father hopes for a racial equality he will never find in the States. Their father's new black girlfriend won't even look at Birdie, while their mother gives her life over to the Movement: at night the sisters watch mysterious men arrive with bundles shaped like rifles. Then their parents' marriage falls apart. For Birdie, Cole is the mirror in which she can see her own blackness. The sisters are so close that they have created a private language, yet to the outside world they can't be sisters: Birdie appears to be white, while Cole is dark enough to fit in with the other kids at the Afrocentric school they attend. Urn:oclc:753221394 Scandate 20091028041645 Scanner Caucasia-Danzy Senna's extraordinary debut novel and national bestseller-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. OL2698669W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 94.27 Pages 440 Ppi 400 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0733609996 Urn:lcp:caucasia00senn:epub:371e6f34-2b05-49d5-b23c-665c04183e27 Extramarc University of Pennsylvania Franklin Library Foldoutcount 0 Identifier caucasia00senn Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t45q5gp48 Isbn 1573227161ĩ781573227162 Lccn 97028911 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary_edition Danzy Senna’s debut coming-of-age novel Caucasia (1998) takes place in Boston, Massachusetts during the tumultuous Black Power Movement of the 1970s.

Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 19:34:14 Boxid IA105806 Boxid_2 CH120121115-BL1 Camera Canon 5D City New York DonorĪlibris Edition Riverhead trade paperback External-identifier About this book The mountains of Caucasia lie between the Black and Caspian Seas and on the boundary between Europe and Asia.

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