The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by Nuala O'Faolain
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother

Nuala O'Faolain

The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother

Nuala O'Faolain

228 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir emotional reflective slow-paced
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Around the narrative of Ruth McBride Jordan, a.k.a. Rachel Deborah Shilsky, the daughter of an angry, failed Orthodox Jewish rabbi in the South, her son James writes of the inner confusions he felt as a black child of a white mother and of the lov...

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