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You Are Free: Stories

By: Danzy Senna
Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo,January LaVoy,Cassandra Campbell,Bahni Turpin
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Publisher's summary

Danzy Senna's You Are Free is now available for the first time in audio!

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'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.

Audiobook Table of Contents:

  • "Admission", read by Adenrele Ojo
  • "The Land of Beulah", read by January LaVoy
  • "Replacement Theory", read by Cassandra Campbell
  • "There, There", read by Bahni Turpin
  • "The Care of the Self", read by January LaVoy
  • "You Are Free", read by Cassandra Campbell
  • "Triptych", read by Adenrele Ojo
  • "What’s the Matter with Helga and Dave?", read by Bahni Turpin
©2011 Danzy Senna (P)2018 Penguin Audio

Critic reviews

“Senna skillfully exposes the cracks in her characters’ domestic lives… Though [her] stories address race, class and gender, they never devolve into simple case studies. Rather, her collection offers nuanced portraits of characters confronting anxieties and prejudices that leave them not as free as they would like to be.” (The New York Times Book Review)

“Shocking…Senna reveals things about people that we rarely see in day-to-day life…Severing readers from their entrenched moralities usually takes a lot longer (at least a novel), but Senna does it in a few carefully chosen details.” (The Los Angeles Times)

“Unsettling…[Senna] fearlessly but subtly dramatizes a very American discomfort with such issues as race, class, and gender." (Vogue)

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