FREE: The Color of Water; A Black Man's Tribute To His White Mother

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Perfect Condition! All 313 pages :) Here's what it says on the back of the book;

As 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 color God was, she said "God is the color 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. The color of water is James McBride's tribute to his remarkable, eccentric, determined mother-- and an eloquent exploration of what family really means.