- Race relations, Fiction, Drama, Women college students
Remembering Minette Swift, the talented, assertive, 19-year-old African-American girl enrolled as a scholarship student in an exclusive, mostly white liberal arts college near Philadelphia who died under mysterious circumstances fifteen years earlier, Genna, her former roommate, begins an unofficial inquiry into her death.
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Grave, earnest, prestige and bleak.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- warmbleak
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Joyce Carol Oates
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 272
- Publisher
- Ecco, Ecco/HarperCollins Publishers, Sound Library
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780792745396
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