[In the following review, Reiher briefly describes the obstacles that Birdie, the adolescent narrator of Senna's Caucasia, faces as she grows up.]
The time is the 1970s, the place is Boston, an...
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[In the following review, Yang points out certain flaws in Senna's Caucasia, including sounding too much like a race treatise and problems with time.]
In Danzy Senna's debut novel, Cauca...
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[In the following review, the critic praises Senna's Caucasia for its effective evocation of being caught between two races.]
[Caucasia, is a]n ambitious debut novel that powerfully, if schemat...
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[In the following review, Flexman discusses the racial divide explored in Senna's Caucasia.]
Senna's first novel[, Caucasia,] explores life in the middle of America's racial chasm...
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[In the following review, Seaman praises Senna's Caucasia as "thematically and dramatically rich."]
Senna's debut novel [Caucasia] is as thematically and dramatically rich ...
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[In the following review, Shapiro lauds Senna's debut novel, Caucasia.]
Long after you finish the book, the visual conundrums woven through Danzy Senna's remarkable first novel, Caucasia...
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[In the following review, Funderberg praises the narrative voice of Senna's Caucasia.]
This month two first-time novelists view life through the prism of the not-so-tragic mulatto. First, Danzy...
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[In the following review, Schmidt discusses Birdie's struggle for identity and acceptance in Senna's Caucasia.]
Early on in Danzy Senna's absorbing debut novel, [Caucasia,] her 7-...
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[In the following review, Linfield lauds Senna's Caucasia for its realistic and complex portrayal of racial identity in America.]
A novelist I know asked what I'd been reading lately. Ca...
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[In the following review, Jefferson asserts that Senna's Caucasia is a moving novel which explores fully the implications of being racially or culturally mixed in America.]
When I was a child i...
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