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Heather
May 04, 2007 rated it really liked it
Shelves: fiction, adult
The story was so well thought-out and told that I had trouble believing that it was fiction.

In fun news, she was a special faculty member at Holy Cross while we were there and Kristen took a writing class from her!...I have some signed copies of the book!
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Kate
May 22, 2009 rated it it was amazing
I absolutely loved this book when I read it during college. Just realized she has some newer work and can't wait to read them as well! ...more
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Lindi
May 15, 2009 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: cultural-competency, indy-girl, 9th-grade-english, grown-up-books
Brilliant and I do mean brilliant story about sisters and race and family and dysfunction and class. Birdie Lee is the younger and lighter-skinned daughter of 1970s revolutionaries Sandy (Boston WASP) and Deck (Black intellectual). She has always been inseparable from her older, darker sister, Cole, but as they grow up, it is increasingly hard to keep the greater culture at bay; it is harder for Sandy to be an adequate mom to a Black girl; it is harder period . . . until the family splits down t ...more
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