Caucasia

Danzy Senna

first published 1998 Riverhead Hardcover, 1998 hardcover 353 pages

Birdie and Cole are the daughters of a black father and a white mother, intellectuals and activists in the civil rights movement in Boston in the 1970s. The sisters are so close that they have created a private language, yet to the outside world they can't be sisters: while Cole looks like her father's daughter, Birdie appears to be white. For Birdie, Cole is the mirror in which she can see her own blackness. Then t...

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Caucasia edition · 2003 · Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media · 9780606189699
Caucasia paperback · 1999 · Riverhead Trade · 432 pages · 9781573227162
Caucasia edition · 1999 · Tandem Library · 413 pages · 9780613146180
Caucasia paperback · 1999 · Riverhead Trade · 9781573227414
CAUCASIA. hardcover · 1998 · RIVERHEAD. NY 1998 · 9780965355667
Caucasia hardcover · 1998 · Riverhead Hardcover · 353 pages

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