The Color of Water by James McBride
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Enjoy our presentation of The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother written by James McBride and published by Phoenix Books, Inc. James McBride grew up in the all-black projects of Red Hook, Brooklyn with eleven siblings, and a mother who was as tough as nails. His mother was born a white, Orthodox Jew, who at the age of seventeen, left her family and past behind to marry a black minister. McBride reveals within this memoir the trials and hardships that his mother endured from a young age, and his own experiences of growing up in poverty with such a unique family.
The Color of Water won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for nonfiction in 1997.
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