Caucasia- Already seeing a reflection

While I'm only 51 pages into our newest novel, Caucasia, I really like it. The voice of the main character Birdie is very believable, and the conflict between the races seen only through her parents troubled marriage (for right now anyway) is portrayed very vividly.

I've also noticed that mirrors are brought up as a motif a couple of times, even this early in the novel. Birdie introduces the novel by saying that she always remembered her reflection in the mirror as her sister's face, not her own. Birdie then thinks into the mirror after he mother called her a Sicilian when her father left. Cole also asks for a mirror after her mother tries and fails to braid her hair in corn-rows like the other black girls. It's very early in the novel and this could just be a coincidence but I think the idea of how you see yourself will carry over into other parts of the book.