CaucasiaBy: Danzy Senna From the author of New People and Colored Television, the extraordinary national bestseller that launched Danzy Sennas literary career Superbly illustrates the emotional toll that politics and race take Haunting. The New York Times Book Review Birdie and Cole are the daughters of a black father and a white mother, intellectuals and activists in the Civil Rights Movement in 1970s Boston. The sisters are so close that they speak their