Danzy Senna





Danzy Senna

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January 01, 1970 in Boston, Massachusetts, The United States

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Danzy Senna is an American novelist, born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts in 1970. Her parents, Carl Senna, an Afro-Mexican poet and author, and Fanny Howe, who is Irish-American writer, were also civil rights activists.

She attended Stanford University and received an MFA from the University of California at Irvine. There, she received several creative writing awards.

Her debut novel, Caucasia (later republished as From Caucasia With Love), was well received and won several awards including the Book-Of-The-Month Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction, and the Alex Award from the American Library Association.

Her second novel, Symptomatic, was also well received. Both books feature a biracial protagonist and offer a unique view on life from...more


Average rating: 3.83 · 3,389 ratings · 462 reviews · 9 distinct works
Caucasia
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 2,649 ratings — published 1998 — 11 editions
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Symptomatic
3.13 of 5 stars 3.13 avg rating — 289 ratings — published 2004 — 3 editions
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Where Did You Sleep Last Ni...
3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 202 ratings — published 2009 — 7 editions
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You Are Free: Stories
3.44 of 5 stars 3.44 avg rating — 200 ratings — published 2011
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Where Did You Sleep Last Ni...
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2010
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You Are Free: Stories
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“It’s funny. When you leave your home and wander really far, you always think, ‘I want to go home.’ But then you come home, and of course it’s not the same. You can’t live with it, you can’t live away from it. And it seems like from then on there’s always this yearning for some place that doesn’t exist. I felt that. Still do. I’m never completely at home anywhere.”
Danzy Senna

“We were lying on our backs in the foothills, watching the sky and making a list called "Never." All the things we would never do. Let's never get married. Let's never get fat. Let's never sleep with a married man. Let's never stop being students, even after we graduate. Let's never get dull-eyed and ironic. Let's never get stuck in a rut-- or trapped in a life we didn't choose. Let's never grow bitter.”
Danzy Senna, Symptomatic

“He began to talk about the fact that race was not only a construct but a scientific error along the magnitude of the error that the world was flat. . . 'And when they discover their mistake, I mean, truly discover it, it'll be as big as when they learned the world was, in fact, round. It'll open up a whole new world. And nothing will ever be the same.”
Danzy Senna, Caucasia

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