Black Girl/White Girl

In 1975 Genna Hewett-Meade's college roommate died a mysterious, violent death partway through their freshman year. Minette Swift had been assertive, fiercely individualistic, and one of the few black girls at their exclusive, enlightened college--and Genna, daughter of a prominent civil defense lawyer, felt duty-bound to protect her at all costs. But fifteen years later, while reconstructing Minette's tragic death, Genna is forced to painfully confront her own past life and identity...and her deepest beliefs about social obligation in a morally gray world.

Black Girl / White Girl is a searing double portrait of race and civil rights in post-Vietnam America, captured by one of the most important literary voices of our time.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Oates, Joyce Carol
Published: 05/29/2007
Publisher: Ecco Press
ISBN: 9780061125652
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.00h x 6.62w x 0.76d