A review by bocasbri
Caucasia by Danzy Senna

5.0

i loved this coming-of-age story. i think its important to address the privileges of being white-passing, while still acknowledging the impacts that can have on someone’s identity. while this was an extreme version of her mom forcing her to pretend to be white, it was still very interesting to see how that impacted birdie’s identity. 

it was hard to see the pain that birdie went through being separated from her sister and constantly having to lie to everyone. i wish that we got a bit more clarity on her mom’s and sister’s perspectives, but that didn’t quite take away from my reading experience. i was glad to see birdie reunite with cole by the end of the book. i was afraid of cole not accepting birdie in, but it was so heartwarming to see her also aching for that reunion.