New York: Riverhead Books, 1998. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's very highly praised first novel - with comments from such diverse writers as James McBride, Geoffrey Wolff, Chang-rae Lee and Veronica Chambers ('Danzy Senna is fierce. A race woman with a sense of humor. A homegirl with a searing intellect.') The story of a young woman - daughter of a black father and a white mother, intellectuals and activists in Boston's civil rights movement - who winds up being separated from her sister when her father and mother part - as the lighter sister, she remains with the mother when she goes underground, while her darker sister is taken to Brazil with her father and his new black girlfriend. SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the Stephen Crane Award and the ALA Alex Award. 353 pp. ISBN: 1-57322-0194.