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Interview: Danzy Senna, author of Where Did You Sleep Last Night?

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

Rebecca Touger interviews Danzy Senna, author of Where Did You Sleep Last Night? Senna’s memoir is an account of a childhood complicated by divorce and racial identity, and of a search through both sides of her family’s history for answers.

Excerpt: Where Did You Sleep Last Night? by Danzy Senna

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

The following is the opening passage from Danzy Senna’s Where Did You Sleep Last Night: A Personal History. The memoir chronicles her family’s history and their complicated racial identities. And be sure to read Rebecca Touger’s interview with Senna.
In 1975 my mother left my father for the last time. We fled to Guilford, Connecticut. It [...]

 
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