FREE: The Color of Water - memoir

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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. " Your a human being" she snapped. This is the story of a rabbi's daughter, born in Poland and raised in the South, who fled to Harlem, married a black man. This is a softcover book with a small amount of wear to cover but overall in good condition.