Remembering the talented African-American roommate who died under mysterious circumstances fifteen years earlier, Genna begins an unofficial inquiry into her death, during which she reconstructs their tumultuous freshman year in race-torn 1960s Philadelphia. By the author of We Were the Mulvaneys. Reprint. 50,000 first printing. In 1975 Genna Hewett-Meade's college roommate died a mysterious, violent death partway through their freshman year. Minette Swift had been assertive, fiercely individualistic, and one of the few black girls at their exclusive, "enlightened" college--and Genna, daughter of a prominent civil defense lawyer, felt duty-bound to protect her at all costs. But fifteen years later, while reconstructing Minette's tragic death, Genna is forced to painfully confront her own past life and identity...and her deepest beliefs about social obligation in a morally gray world. Black Girl / White Girl is a searing double portrait of race and civil rights in post-Vietnam America, captured by one of the most important literary voices of our time.