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A novel written by Danzy Senna. The narrator, Birdie Lee, is a young [[MixedAncestry half-black-half-white]] girl growing up in the [[TheSeventies 1970s]]. She speaks a made-up language with her sister Cole and is home schooled for much of her early life. A radical action on her mother's part leads to the two sisters becoming separated and trying to find their way back to each other. The book deals with the issues of race, passing, sisterhood and belonging.
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A novel written by Danzy Senna. The narrator, Birdie Lee, is a young [[MixedAncestry half-black-half-white]] half-black-half-white girl growing up in the [[TheSeventies 1970s]]. She speaks a made-up language with her sister Cole and is home schooled for much of her early life. A radical action on her mother's part leads to the two sisters becoming separated and trying to find their way back to each other. The book deals with the issues of race, passing, sisterhood and belonging.
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* MixedAncestry: Both Birdie and Cole, although Birdie looks more like her (white) mother and Cole resembles her (black) father. This crops up as an issue time and time again and eventually leads to the two sisters splitting ways.
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* ProperlyParanoid: Subverted. Birdie's mother, Sandy, goes on the lam with her daughter due to her fear that she was being targeted by the feds. It's strongly implied, and eventually revealed, that Sandy received very little attention, if any at all, from the feds.
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* RacistGrandma: Birdie and Cole's maternal grandmother is one of these. She strongly disapproves of her daughter's choice in marriage and ignores the darker-skinned Cole in favour of her whiter and straight-haired sister.
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* RacistGrandma: Birdie and Cole's maternal grandmother is one of these. She strongly disapproves of her daughter's choice in marriage and ignores the darker-skinned Cole in favour favor of her whiter and straight-haired sister.
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A novel written by Danzy Senna. The narrator, Birdie Lee, is a young [[MixedAncestry half-black-half-white]] girl growing up in the [[TheSeventies 1970s]]. She speaks a made-up language with her sister Cole and is home schooled for much of her early life. A radical action on her mother's part leads to the two sisters becoming separated and trying to find their way back to each other. The book deals with the issues of race, passing, sisterhood and belonging.
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!!This book provides examples of:
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Birdie and Cole due to their heritage.
* EveryoneIsBi
* EverythingIsRacist: Deck Lee, Birdie and Cole's father often falls victim to this, but is only amused when presented with a legitimately racist blackface doll.
* FakeNationality
* InformedJudaism: Invoked by Birdie's mother. When the two are on the lam, their new identities are Jewish, but neither of them know very much about Judaism. Birdie wears a cheap Star of David and her mother occasionally calls her ''meshugga'' in public. When settling down in a new place they sometimes forget that they're supposed to be Jewish in the first place.
* LesYay: Both Birdie and her mother enter lesbian relationships when living at a women's commune.
* MixedAncestry: Both Birdie and Cole, although Birdie looks more like her (white) mother and Cole resembles her (black) father. This crops up as an issue time and time again and eventually leads to the two sisters splitting ways.
* PassFail: A main theme of the book.
* PretendPrejudice: Despite the fact that Deck sees almost everything white people do as racist and oppressive, he ''did'' after all marry a white woman and a large number of his friends are white.
* RacistGrandma: Birdie and Cole's maternal grandmother is one of these. She strongly disapproves of her daughter's choice in marriage and ignores the darker-skinned Cole in favour of her whiter and straight-haired sister.
* ScaryMinoritySuspect: On an outing to the park, the police suspect Birdie's father of abducting her because of his dark skin.
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A novel written by Danzy Senna. The narrator, Birdie Lee, is a young [[MixedAncestry half-black-half-white]] girl growing up in the [[TheSeventies 1970s]]. She speaks a made-up language with her sister Cole and is home schooled for much of her early life. A radical action on her mother's part leads to the two sisters becoming separated and trying to find their way back to each other. The book deals with the issues of race, passing, sisterhood and belonging.
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!!This book provides examples of:
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Birdie and Cole due to their heritage.
* EveryoneIsBi
* EverythingIsRacist: Deck Lee, Birdie and Cole's father often falls victim to this, but is only amused when presented with a legitimately racist blackface doll.
* FakeNationality
* InformedJudaism: Invoked by Birdie's mother. When the two are on the lam, their new identities are Jewish, but neither of them know very much about Judaism. Birdie wears a cheap Star of David and her mother occasionally calls her ''meshugga'' in public. When settling down in a new place they sometimes forget that they're supposed to be Jewish in the first place.
* LesYay: Both Birdie and her mother enter lesbian relationships when living at a women's commune.
* MixedAncestry: Both Birdie and Cole, although Birdie looks more like her (white) mother and Cole resembles her (black) father. This crops up as an issue time and time again and eventually leads to the two sisters splitting ways.
* PassFail: A main theme of the book.
* PretendPrejudice: Despite the fact that Deck sees almost everything white people do as racist and oppressive, he ''did'' after all marry a white woman and a large number of his friends are white.
* RacistGrandma: Birdie and Cole's maternal grandmother is one of these. She strongly disapproves of her daughter's choice in marriage and ignores the darker-skinned Cole in favour of her whiter and straight-haired sister.
* ScaryMinoritySuspect: On an outing to the park, the police suspect Birdie's father of abducting her because of his dark skin.
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