Black Girl, White Girl, by Joyce Carol Oates
17th Nov 2006, 01:55 GMT
In this bold and distressing novel, Joyce Carol Oates subjects American race relations to her relentless scrutiny. She has done so before in her many novels, but never with such honesty and penetration. A tale of betrayal and betraying, Black Girl, White Girl is set in the mid-1970s on the campus of Schuyler, an East Coast women's college proud of its liberal traditions and scholarships for "people of colour". Genevra Meade, "well-behaved to the point of invisibility", is delighted to be placed with a black roommate, Minette Swift, and yearns to become her best friend.
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