The Color of Water
A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
By James McBride
(Riverhead Trade, Paperback, 9781594481925, 352pp.)
Publication Date: January 2006
Other Editions of This Title: Compact Disc (April 2006), (January 2006), Audio Cassette (November 1999), Audio Cassette (February 1996)
Categories: Parenting - Parent & Adult Child, Personal Memoirs, Cultural Heritage
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Description
With a new Introduction to this touching homage to his mother, the author paints a portrait of growing up in a black neighborhood as the child of an interracial marriage. Although raised an Orthodox Jew in the South, McBride's mother abandoned her heritage, moved to Harlem, and married a black man.
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