New York: HarperPerennial, (2011.). SIGNED first edition - "From her father and mother's interracial marriage to her own "you show me yours, I'll show you mine" moments on the playground--from drug experimentation to sexual/identity questions--MariNaomi lays her inner life bare. . . a funny and frank memoir in graphic form: a fresh and offbeat coming-of-age story unfolding against the colorful backdrop of San Francisco in the '80s and '90s. Through deft storytelling and charming illustration, MariNaomi carries us through first love and worst love, through heartbreak and bedroom experimentation, as she grows from misfit teen to young woman." INSCRIBED on the first page where the author has drawn a cartoon balloon from her photograph and added the comment "Hi, it's October 15, 2010. Yay! xoxo" Slightly oversized format. 331 pp.

New York: Riverhead Books, 1998. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the title page. Author's very highly praised first novel - with comments from such diverse writers as Thomas Kenneally (who called her a 'superb new writer'), 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. 353 pp. ISBN: 1-57322-0194.