New York: Riverhead Books, (1999). SIGNED - 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…
New York: Riverhead Books, (1999). SIGNED - 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. 413 pp. ISBN: 1-57322-7161.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2000). First edition - Now living in a white, upper-class suburb of Houston - and feeling trapped - a former civil rights activist's life is shattered by the appearance of her estranged daughter - the product of an affair with a black professor nearly eighteen years earlier. A complicated story of love, relationships, race and privilege. 403 pp.
Condition: Fine in cream wrappers with silver lettering.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (book published as a trade paperback original. )
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,…
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.
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