![]() ![]() Growing up in 1970s Boston, Senna used her stories in part to help process the. They settle on Jewish, and Birdie adopts the name Jesse Goldman, which she uses during the six years they are on the run. The novelist Danzy Senna is perpetually distracted by the world in her head. Puerto Rican, Sicilian, Pakistani, Greek” (130). When Birdie and her mother are concocting their fake identities, Sandy says: “You can be anything. ![]() On the plane to San Francisco, a man asks if she is Pakistani or Indian (378). Throughout the novel, people remark that Birdie looks Italian (107, 130, 195). When the family splits up and she goes on the run with her mother, she learns to pass as white to keep their identities secret. Growing up in Boston’s Black Power movement, she learns to identify as black, like her father and sister. ![]() ![]() Because Birdie has pale skin, European features, and long dark hair, she looks ethnically ambiguous and spends most of the novel trying to conform to the identity of those around her. Birdie is the mixed-race daughter of an African-American father, Deck Lee, and a white mother, Sandra Lodge Lee. You Are Free: Stories by Danzy Senna: 9781594485077 : Books From the bestselling author of Caucasia and New People, riveting, unexpected stories about identity under the influence of appearances, attachments, and. Birdie Lee is the novel’s protagonist, and the book spans her life from age eight to 14. ![]()
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