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Summary: Beautiful language; yet seems unfinished...
Review: I thought this book was well written. The language was simple yet exquisite and at times, so telling, so real. It just seems that there are gaping holes in the story--like Cole. What was her story? And the mother's story seemed unfinished, just like the father's. I agree with the reviewer who said that the other characters were two-dimensional. The ending disappointed me as well. Don't get me wrong, I really liked the book. I didn't expect it to be perfect. I just think more could have been done with it. P.S. I can't believe someone called this book trash!
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Summary: Finish the story Danzy
Review: A little girl struggles to find her father and sister, a truly amazing story! The book has spurts, at times I wanted to skip pages and other times I couldn't put the book down. I hope Danzy writes part II to this book because I want to know what became of the other people she talked about in the book. "Birdie", Danzy was 14 when she found her sister and that was the end of the book...I want more..! Where is Cole, her parents, Ali, did she ever go back to Boston or New Hampshire?
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Summary: A new twist on old themes...
Review: Danzy Senna has taken shopworn themes and reworked them into something beautiful. The saga of mother-daughter, the identity of the biracial child, and the on the road story. All these themes come alive when lived by the characters in Ms. Senna's inventive, vibrant novel. The beauty of her prose in no way takes away from the importance of the story. She seems to have combined two of my favorite novels, "Anywhere but Here" and " The Color of Water".
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Summary: Superb Story
Review: I picked this book up at the local bookstore, and could *not* put it down. The story kept me hooked; while the story surrounds the conflict of mixed racial identity, it speaks just as well to other inner conflicts and how to come to grow into one's skin. I look forward to other works by this author.
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Summary: Very enjoyable
Review: I read this for my book club and I was delighted. I enjoyed entering a world unfamiliar to me described in such a vivid way and I truly connected with the book and its wonderful characters. The writer brings the pain the young girls feel to life without being overly sentimental. A good read!
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Summary: HATS OFF TO MS. SENNA
Review: I read this fantastic book durning my holiday vacation from work. This was truly a treat. I usually do not find an interest in the bi-racial, poor white mother and her black kids drama. However, as a black women my need to support this young black women by purchasing her first novel won out over the lack of desire to read what I though would be another tragic mullatto story. But from the very begining I could not put this very well written work down. I related to a mother's love for her children and love of a man, for the unexplainable reason of just because. I looked at my daughter alot while reading this book because it made me remember, that she is an indiviual and her reality is a lot different from mine because she is coming of age, and I have been there. I was entertained and enlighten. Ms. Senna has written more than a book about being bi-racial. She has written a book about love.
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Summary: Caucasia is one of the best books that I've read.
Review: Caucasia is about two biracial sisters who seperates during childhood. Cole, the oldest, resembles their dad with dark skin and thick hair, leaves with their father. Birdie, favors their mother with light skin and straight hair, departs with their mother. Birdie goes through life telling her story without her sister. Causcasia is written in a manner of vivid creativity and it kept me wanting to read more. The novel pulled me into the story making me feel as though I was standing side by side with the characters.This book is most definitely worth reading.
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Summary: I'm saving this for my daughter.
Review: From the moment I read the first page of Caucasia until I finished the authors acknowledgements, this book completely devoured me. This story and Senna's voice are so true to me right now, that as I read page after page, New York City and the rest of my life faded quietly back into an opaque background for her story. The author saves for us in perfect crystalline details the moments in which our true selves climb out, from wherever the world has convinced us to hide them, and forcibly define who we are.Suffice it to say that, I am sending copies to the people that I have always wanted to understand me better, and I am saving the book in my hands for my daughter.
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Summary: Excellent View of Being BiRacial in America
Review: I really enjoyed Danzy Senna's book, particularly the voice of Birdie, the light skinned biracial child of a black/white marriage. It is a voice not found in most American literature; there is so little literature on "passing" in general. However, I found the end of the book to be rushed, the conversations stilted and the non-Birdie characters felt more 2-dimensional. But I think this is the first book of a fine author who can develop into a great writer.
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Summary: Totally engrossing story of race, yearning and love
Review: A superb story. We enter Birdie's consciousness, her complicated life, her love for her powerful unknowable mother, her long search for her father and sister. Every word and thought clear, complexities spelled out, asking questions, answering some, leaving others to be thought out and struggled with. I wanted to stay with Birdie longer, to see what happens next. A brave book about the pervasive issues of race and racism in so many of their varied guises.
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