Where Did You Sleep Last Night? A Personal History

Name: Where Did You Sleep Last Night? A Personal History
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ISBN: 9780312429393

ISBN-10: 0312429398

ISBN-13: 9780312429393

Edition: N/A

Authors: Danzy Senna

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When Danzy Senna's parents got married in 1968, they seemed poised to defy history. They were two brilliant young American writers from wildly divergent backgroundsa white woman with a blue-blood Bostonian lineage and a black man, the son of a struggling single mother and an unknown father. They married in a year that seemed to separate the past from the present; together, these two would snub the histories that divided them and embrace a radical future. When their marriage disintegrated eight years later, it was, as one friend put it, "the ugliest divorce in Boston's history"a violent, traumatic war that felt all the more heartrending given the hopeful symbolism of their union.Decades…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 3/30/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.638

Fran Ross (1935-1985) grew up in Philadelphia. She wrote Oreo while working as a proofreader and journalist, and then moved to Los Angeles to write for Richard Pryor.Danzy Senna is the author of several books, including the award-winning novel Caucasia.