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Award History
| Award | Year | Status | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence | 2017 | Shortlist |
About This Book
In late-1990s Brooklyn, Maria is part of a biracial golden couple engaged to be married, but she becomes obsessively drawn to a poet who disrupts everything she has carefully constructed. A darkly comic novel about race, class, and identity. Shortlisted for the 2017 Ernest J. Gaines Award.
About the Author
Danzy SennaAmerican
Danzy Senna is an American novelist of mixed Black and white heritage. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1970, she studied at Stanford University and received an MFA from the University of California, Irvine. Her debut novel Caucasia (1998) is a coming-of-age story about biracial sisters who are separated when their activist parents' interracial marriage falls apart. Read more →
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