The Color of Water

James McBride

eBook - 2006

From the bestselling author of Deacon King Kong and the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird: The modern classic that spent more than two years on The New York Times bestseller list and that Oprah.com calls one of the best memoirs of a generation. Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared "light-skinned" woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love for her twelve black children. James McBride, journalist, musician, and son, explores his mother's past, as well as his own upbringing and heritage, in a poignant and powerful debut, The Color Of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother. The son of a black minister and a woman who would not admit she was white, James McBride grew up in &quo...t;orchestrated chaos" with his eleven siblings in the poor, all-black projects of Red Hook, Brooklyn. "Mommy," a fiercely protective woman with "dark eyes full of pep and fire," herded her...

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Published
Penguin Publishing Group
Language
English
Main Author
James McBride
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Format
Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook
Kindle Book
ASINB001EGQNCI
Release Date2/7/2006
OverDrive Read eBook
ISBN9781440636103
Release Date2/7/2006