Caucasia

Rating:
Summary: Very Enlightening
Review: This book was recommended to me for a good read, at first I couldn't get into it, but then it became very interesting. I am not a child of an interracial relationship, but I have had a curiosity about how they live their lives. Birdie/Jesse had a very difficult time growing up because she had so many things to deal with as a maturing adolescent. To be bi-racial, to have to assume another identity, to have to live without your father and sister, to have to pretend to of another religion, to have to lie about your truest feelings and then lie about your ethnicity to everyone you meet on top of becoming an adolescent must be the most difficult thing for a young woman, especially in the 70's/early 80's. I commend Danzy Senna for writing this book, because I am sure there are a lot of young woman that can identify with the subject matter. The book got a little long winded at times, but overall it was very well written and very enlightening. Good background (Boston, MA), good time period and good story.

Rating:
Summary: Wonderful new talent
Review: I was immediately captured by Danzy Senna's "Caucasia", and very impressed with her writing--the characters, neighborhoods, cities, and situations she describes are all very vivid and realistic. The story line itself was intriguing and thought-provoking; two bi-racial sisters separated in childhood by their parents break-up, the dark-skinned daughter disappearing with their Black father, and the fair-skinned daughter disappearing with their White mother. This split along skin-color lines has a huge impact on the lives of both girls, who are suddenly forced to move on with the formation of their identities without each other, when once they were intertwined with a fierce sisterly bond, and a secret language called Elemeno. I think being bi-racial myself is what drew me to this book originally, but the many different issues and themes in the book (racism, identity, political and philosophical fanatacism, etc)kept my interest. In my family, my mother is Black, and my father is White, and the book made me wonder if Cole and Birdie would have been separated the same way if their father Deck had been White, and their mother Sandy had been Black. A great read! I would highly recommend it to anyone.

Rating:
Summary: Black or White?
Review: From page one Birdie and Cole grabbed my attention and kept me reading long after I planned to turn the light out. Their story set in the 1970's rings true with anyone struggling with their race. Years before mixed marriages became acceptable, Birdie is stuck between two worlds and is force to pretend to be something she does not feel she is. I highly reccomend this novel, and give it 5 stars; confident every reader will enjoy the story!

Rating:
Summary: Wonderful new talent
Review: I was immediately captured by Danzy Senna's "Caucasia", and very impressed with her writing--the characters, neighborhoods, cities, and situations she describes are all very vivid and realistic. The story line itself was intriguing and thought-provoking; two bi-racial sisters separated in childhood by their parents break-up, the dark-skinned daughter disappearing with their Black father, and the fair-skinned daughter disappearing with their White mother. This split along skin-color lines has a huge impact on the lives of both girls, who are suddenly forced to move on with the formation of their identities without each other, when once they were intertwined with a fierce sisterly bond, and a secret language called Elemeno. I think being bi-racial myself is what drew me to this book originally, but the many different issues and themes in the book (racism, identity, political and philosophical fanatacism, etc)kept my interest. In my family, my mother is Black, and my father is White, and the book made me wonder if Cole and Birdie would have been separated the same way if their father Deck had been White, and their mother Sandy had been Black. A great read! I would highly recommend it to anyone.

Rating:
Summary: Caucasia
Review: This fiction book is a great choice for anyone who is looking for a good read. I really enjoyed this book because Birdie Lee (the main character) is trying to find a place where she belongs and she has to pretend to be someone that she's not. She and her older sister Cole got split up because of their parents. Birdie went with her crazy white mom and Cole went with their black father, whom Cole resembles but Birdie does not.

Rating:
Summary: Great Book
Review: I took this book along with me on spring break and I could not put it down! The story is amazing and everyone in the book jumps to life. I was sad when the book ended because I wanted to get to know more about everyone's lives. I feel this book is essential reading!! The story is very compelling. I wont give anything away but trust me this story is THAT good!

Rating:
Summary: Great Book
Review: I have never read a book that has needed so much understanding of a subject or made me think hard about society as Caucasia. The author, Danzy Senna, portrays the racial tensions of the 1950's and 60's in 1970's Boston. Birdie and her sister Cole are the result of a biracial marriage. The racial tensions of their time eventually tear the family apart. The girls' mother Sandy must flee with Birdie and go into hiding while Cole will go with her father and search for racial equality. This book is a page turner, I couldn't put it down. It always left me with a earning for what was to come.

Rating:
Summary: Birdie's lost Identity
Review: This book takes place during the civil rights movements of the 1970's, in Boston. It's a story of a biracial family and their struggles to stay together when the rest of the world won't accept them for what they are. After the fallout of her parents marriage, Birdie, light enough to pass for white like her mother, goes on the run from the law with her trying to escape a past of underground activism. Cole, who looks more like her black father leaves with him and his new girlfriend where they can live their intellectual lives free from racism. Birdie is determined to be reunited with her lost family, and on her journey to find them, she discovers something she never expected to find. An identity.

Rating:
Summary: Page turner!!!
Review: I couldn't put this book down, I had to know how it ended. I'm always looking for that page turner, but most often not finding it. Then Caucasia appears ... a jewel.

Rating:
Summary: Journeys of Caucasia
Review: I must say this book was outstanding. I've honestly never read a book so absorbing. Young Birdie Lee grew up day by day with her sister Cole Lee. They were so much like eachother; and they were incredably close. But their looks made the decision on their spliting apart. One apearing dark skinned, the other looking light skinned, they had to split apart as their parents went seperate ways. The mother, Sandy, ran from the "feds" as the father, Deck, ran from racial insecurities. This is a book that keeps you wondering. I definatly recomend it to any person what so ever.