Caucasia
A debut novel about the difficulties of growing up in a biracial family. Birdie, the narrator, is the daughter of a Boston Yankee and a black intellectual who met him at Harvard. While Birdie can pass for white, her sister Cole is darker and usually considered black. Both Birdie and Cole are taunted by their black classmates at school, and Birdie is favored over Cole by their white relatives. Eventually Birdie`s parents separate and Birdie goes to live with her mother, while Cole moves to Brazil with her father.

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