Caucasia
Author: Danzy Senna
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….Read More
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