Danzy Senna, Author . Riverhead $22.95 (214p) ISBN 978-1-57322-275-4
A young biracial woman's postcollege year in New York proves psychologically challenging in Senna's muddled second novel. The unnamed narrator has landed a prestigious fellowship and a job as a reporter at a big New York magazine, not to...
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Danzy Senna, Author Farrar, Straus & Giroux $23 (200p) ISBN 978-0-374-28915-7
In this wistful yet bitter-toned memoir, Senna (Symptomatic
) relates her search for answers about her family and racial heritage, a complicated background that most surely informed first novel, Caucasia
. In her 30s, despite having launched a...
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Danzy Senna, Author Riverhead Books $24.95 (353p) ISBN 978-1-57322-091-0
Set in 1970s Boston, this impressively assured debut avoids the usual extremes in its depiction of racial tension. As children, Birdie and her sister, Cole, create their own secret language--Elemeno--to ward off the growing tension between their...
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Danzy Senna. Riverhead, $15 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-1-59448-507-7
Senna (Caucasia) moves into short fiction with a mixed bag of eight stories dealing with race, identity, and motherhood. Though the protagonists are largely defined by race and gender, the issues they grapple with are diverse: an inner conflict over
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Danzy Senna. Riverhead, $26 (240p) ISBN 978-1-59448-709-5
Senna (Caucasia) returns to long-form fiction in a muddled third novel featuring a protagonist in search of her identity. It’s 1996 in slowly gentrifying New York, and 27-year-old Maria and her college sweetheart Khalil, both mixed-race, are...
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Danzy Senna. Riverhead, $29 (288p) ISBN 978-0-593-54437-2
A struggling Los Angeles novelist succumbs to Hollywood’s siren call in the mordant latest from Senna (Caucasia). Jane, the daughter of an interracial couple, is on a one-year sabbatical from her creative writing professorship. She’s trying to...
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