Symptomatic - Softcover

Senna, Danzy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1594480672 ISBN 13: 9781594480676

Publisher: Riverhead Books, 2005

Synopsis

Danzy Senna's tantalizing new novel centers on a college graduate, recently moved to New York City for what promises to be a dream job--a prestigious fellowship writing for a respected magazine. Displaced, though, and unsure of how she fits into the world around her, she becomes the object of an older woman's attention: both women share the same difficult-to-place skin color. As the older woman's interest turns to obsession, the narrator must figure out what their relationship means to her--while both of their lives seem to be spiraling out of control. Senna's Caucasia was a highly acclaimed debut that went on to become a contemporary classic. In Symptomatic, she takes questions of identity a step further, in a beautifully written novel that is at once suspenseful, erotic, clever, and, as The New York Times wrote of Caucasia, "deeply intelligent."

About this title

Product Description:

Moving to New York City to take a dream job with a respected magazine, a recent college graduate finds herself displaced and uncertain of where she fits into the world around her, a situation that is complicated when she becomes the object of an older woman's attentions as her own life spirals out of control. By the author of Caucasia. Reprint.

About the Author:

Danzy Senna's first novel, Caucasia, was the winner of the Book-of-the-Month Club's Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction and an American Library Association Alex Award. It was a finalist for an International IMPAC Dublin Award, and was a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. Her short fiction and essays have been widely anthologized. She is a recipient of the 2002 Whiting Writers' Award and currently holds the Jenks Chair of Contemporary American/Letters at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.

About this edition

• Publisher: Riverhead Books
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1594480672
• ISBN 13: 9781594480676
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 217