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You are Free: Stories
[Paperback - 2011]
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Literary Fiction
Additional Category: Short Stories - Women Fiction
Publisher: Riverhead Books | ISBN: 9781594485077 | Pages: 240
Shipping Weight: .198 | Dimensions: 5.2 x .6 x 8 inches

From the bestselling author of Caucasia and the forthcoming Colored Television, riveting, unexpected stories about identity under the influence of appearances, attachments, and longing.

Each of these eight remarkable stories by Danzy Senna tightrope-walks tantalizingly, sometimes frighteningly, between defined states: life with and without mates and children, the familiar if constraining reference points provided by race, class, and gender. Tensions arise between a biracial couple when their son is admitted to the private school where they'd applied on a lark. A new mother hosts an old friend, still single, and discovers how each of them pities-and envies- the other. A young woman responds to an adoptee in search of her birth mother, knowing it is not she.

Danzy Senna is an American novelist, born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts in 1970. Her parents, Carl Senna, an Afro-Mexican poet and author, and Fanny Howe, who is Irish-American writer, were also civil rights activists.She attended Stanford University and received an MFA from the University of California at Irvine. There, she received several creative writing awards.Her debut novel, Caucasia (later republished as From Caucasia With Love), was well received and won several awards including the Book-Of-The-Month Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction, and the Alex Award from the American Library Association.Her second novel, Symptomatic, was also well received. Both books feature a biracial protagonist and offer a unique view on life from their perspective.Senna has also contributed to anthologies such as Gumbo.In 2002, Senna received the Whiting Writers Award and in 2004 was named a Fellow for the New York Public Library's Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.Danzy Senna is married to fellow writerPercival Everettand they have a son, Henry together. Their residences have included Los Angeles and New York City.

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