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Each of these eight stories by Danzy Senna tightrope-walks tantalizingly, sometimes frighteningly, between defined states: life with and without mates and children, the familiar if constraining reference points provided by race, class, and gender. Tensions arise between a biracial couple when their...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Riverhead Books,
2011.
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| Edition: | 1st Riverhead trade pbk. ed. |
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| Summary: | Each of these eight stories by Danzy Senna tightrope-walks tantalizingly, sometimes frighteningly, between defined states: life with and without mates and children, the familiar if constraining reference points provided by race, class, and gender. Tensions arise between a biracial couple when their son is admitted to the private school where they'd applied on a lark. A new mother hosts an old friend, still single, and discovers how each of them pities-and envies- the other. A young woman responds to an adoptee in search of her birth mother, knowing it is not she. |
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| Physical Description: | 219 pages ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781594485077 (pbk.) 1594485070 (pbk.) |