You Are Free: Stories

From the bestselling author of Caucasia and New People, 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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 05/03/2011
ISBN: 9781594485077
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.70d
Award: Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award - Nominee

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2011
Library Journal 04/01/2011 pg. 86
Publishers Weekly 03/28/2011
Essence 05/01/2011 pg. 96
New York Times Book Review 05/08/2011 pg. 17
New York Times Book Review 05/15/2011 pg. 34
Booklist 05/15/2011 pg. 19
BookPage 05/01/2011