by JamesMcBride (Author)
As a boy in Brooklyn's Red Hook projects, James McBride knew his mother was different. But when he asked about it, she'd simply say 'I'm light-skinned.' Later he wondered if he was different too, and asked his mother if he was black or white. 'You're a human being,' she snapped. 'Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!' And when James asked what colour God was, she said 'God is the colour of water.' As an adult, McBride finally persuaded his mother to tell her story - the story of a rabbi's daughter, born in Poland and raised in the South, who fled to Harlem, married a black man, founded a Baptist church, and put twelve children through college.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 13 Oct 1998
ISBN 10: 0747538328
ISBN 13: 9780747538325
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