Description
In 1975 Genna Hewett-Meade's college roommate died a mysterious, violent death partway through their freshman year. Minette Swift had been assertive, fiercely individualistic, and one of the few black girls at their exclusive, enlightened college--and Genna, daughter of a prominent civil defense lawyer, felt duty-bound to protect her at all costs. But fifteen years later, while reconstructing Minette's tragic death, Genna is forced to painfully confront her own past life and identity...and her deepest beliefs about social obligation in a morally gray world.
Black Girl / White Girl is a searing double portrait of race and civil rights in post-Vietnam America, captured by one of the most important literary voices of our time.
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 05/29/2007
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.00h x 6.62w x 0.76d
ISBN13: 9780061125652
ISBN10: 0061125652
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Historical | General
- Fiction | Coming of Age
- Fiction | African American & Black | Women