{"id":12544,"date":"2011-03-08T20:20:58","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T20:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=12544"},"modified":"2014-01-16T15:46:38","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T15:46:38","slug":"symptomatic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=12544","title":{"rendered":"Symptomatic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/us.penguingroup.com\/nf\/Book\/BookDisplay\/0,,9781594480676,00.html?Symptomatic_Danzy_Senna\" target=\"_blank\">Symptomatic<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Riverhead Books (an imprint of Penguin)<br \/>\nFebruary 2005<br \/>\n224 pages<br \/>\n5.07 x 7.87in<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 9781594480676<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danzysenna.com\" target=\"_blank\">Danzy Senna<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/us.penguingroup.com\/nf\/Book\/BookDisplay\/0,,9781594480676,00.html?Symptomatic_Danzy_Senna\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/us.penguingroup.com\/static\/covers\/all\/6\/7\/9781594480676H.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0young woman moves to New York City for what promises to be a dream job. Displaced, she feels unsure of her fit in the world. Then comes a look of recognition, a gesture of friendship from an older woman named Greta who shares the same difficult-to-place color of skin. On common ground, a tenuous alliance grows between two women in racial limbo. So too, does the older woman&#8217;s unnerving obsession, leading to a collision of two lives spiraling out of control. A beautifully written novel, at once suspenseful, erotic, and tantalizingly clever, <em>Symptomatic<\/em> is a groundbreaking contribution to the literature of racial identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Symptomatic Riverhead Books (an imprint of Penguin) February 2005 224 pages 5.07 x 7.87in Paperback ISBN: 9781594480676 Danzy Senna A\u00a0young woman moves to New York City for what promises to be a dream job. Displaced, she feels unsure of her fit in the world. Then comes a look of recognition, a gesture of friendship from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,15],"tags":[1340,4201],"class_list":["post-12544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-media-archive","category-novels","tag-danzy-senna","tag-riverhead-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}