{"id":13773,"date":"2011-05-13T02:12:31","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T02:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=13773"},"modified":"2015-07-10T17:32:19","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T17:32:19","slug":"you-are-free-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=13773","title":{"rendered":"You Are Free: Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/us.penguingroup.com\/nf\/Book\/BookDisplay\/0,,0_9781594485077,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">You Are Free: Stories<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Riverhead (and Imprint of Penguin Press)<br \/>\n2011-05-03<br \/>\n240 pages<br \/>\nISBN 9781594485077<\/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,,0_9781594485077,00.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/us.penguingroup.com\/static\/covers\/all\/7\/7\/9781594485077H.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Each of these eight remarkable stories by Danzy Senna tightrope-walks tantalizingly, sometimes frighteningly, between defined states: life with and without mates and children, the familiar if constraining reference points provided by race, class, and gender. Tensions arise between a biracial couple when their son is admitted to the private school where they&#8217;d applied on a lark. A new mother hosts an old friend, still single, and discovers how each of them pities-and envies- the other. A young woman responds to an adoptee in search of her birth mother, knowing it is not she.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You Are Free: Stories Riverhead (and Imprint of Penguin Press) 2011-05-03 240 pages ISBN 9781594485077 Danzy Senna Each of these eight remarkable stories by Danzy Senna tightrope-walks tantalizingly, sometimes frighteningly, between defined states: life with and without mates and children, the familiar if constraining reference points provided by race, class, and gender. Tensions arise between [&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":[1340,6202,3564],"class_list":["post-13773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-media-archive","category-novels","tag-danzy-senna","tag-penguin-press","tag-penguiun-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13773","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=13773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}