When Danzy Senna\'s parents married in 1968, they seemed poised to defy history: two beautiful young American writers from wildly divergent backgrounds a white woman with a blue-blood Bostonian lineage and a black man, the son of a struggling single mother and an unknown father.
Decades later, Senna looks back not only at her parents\' divorce.
When their marriage disintegrated eight years later, the violent, traumatic split felt all the more tragic for the hopeful symbolism it had once borne.
When Danzy Senna\'s parents married in 1968, they seemed poised to defy history: two beautiful young American writers from wildly divergent backgrounds a white woman with a blue-blood Bostonian lineage and a black man, the son of a struggling single mother and an unknown father
