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    <body><![CDATA[he Professor's Daughter is Emma Boudreaux, a young woman who is struggling with the loss of her older &quot;spiritual twin&quot; brother, Bernie (Bernard Boudreaux III), who dies after a brief coma following a freak accident. Emma has long been a victim of physical and emotional abandonment from her...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74310485">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[A daughter's future and her father's past converge in this explosive first novel exploring identity, assimilation, and the legacy of race &quot;My father is black and my mother is white and my brother is a vegetable.&quot; When Emma Boudreaux's older brother, Bernie, winds up in a coma after a freak accident, it's as if she loses a part of herself. All their lives, he has served as her compass, her stronger, better half: Bernie was brilliant when Emma was smart, charismatic when she was awkward, and confident when she was shy. Only Bernie was able to navigate-if not always diplomatically-the terrain of their biracial identity. Now, as the chronic rash that's flared up throughout her life returns with a vengeance, Emma is sleepwalking through her first year at college, left alone to grow into herself. The key to Emma's self-discovery lies in her father's past. Esteemed Princeton professor Bernard Boudreaux is emotionally absent and secretive about his family history. Little does Emma know just how haunted that history is, how tortured the path from the Deep South town to his present Ivy League success has been. Though her father and brother are bound by the past, Emma might just escape. In exhilarating, magical prose, The Professor's Daughter traces the borderlands of race and family, the contested territory that gives birth to rage, confusion, madness, and invisibility. This striking debut marks the arrival of an astonishingly original voice that surges with energy and purpose.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I would describe this book as interesting, beautifully vivid and sort of disjointed and fragmented. Raboteau tells the story of a family, the Boudreauxs, through the eyes of its protagonist, Emma Boudreaux. It is a story of identity, but also family as provided with glimpses of the past and through ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38055528">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Mixed race family with kids whose skin colors are different, one looks white, one looks black.  There's a great scene where the white-looking girl is approached from behind by a black boy trying to mug her in New Haven.  Similar themes in Caucasia, by Danzy Senna.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is beautifully written, and I had a hard time putting it down, although a few parts were horrifying and sad. Some of the stories about race and discrimination were eye-opening.<br/><br/>I couldn't help wondering how much of this was autobiographical (while looking at the author's photo on the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60344110">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a novel, but according to my book group the story is pretty autobiographical.  A mixed race young woman struggles with her relationship to her family. Her father's inability to be an emotionally available parent is rooted in his past, and painful family history, in the Jim Crow South.  <br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1964749">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a good novel.  I felt as if Raboteau takes on too much, that the story could have been streamlined a bit, but this is certainly worth a read.  Her exploration of race and American identity is wonderful.  The multiple perspectives are rewarding.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A lot of people slept on this one...I mean, even I came to it late...It's a seriously layered story about a daughter's journey towards understanding her father's past...This is one of the best brother &amp; siter stories I've ever read...It's an amazing, powerful and well written novel...Emily is the bo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21751412">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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