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Kätzchen · 02-12-2013, 02:24 PM

I am currently re-reading a favorite book:

The Color of Water:
A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
(James McBride, 2006; Riverhead Books, New York)

From the New York Times Book Review:

"Complex and moving... suffused with issues of race, religion, and identity. Yet those issues, so much a part of their live and stories, are not central. The triumph of the book - and their lives - is that race and religion transcended in these interwoven stories by family love, the sheer force of a mother's will, and her unshakeable insistence that only two things mattered: school and church....
It's her voice - unique, incisive, at once unsparing and ironic - that is dominant in this paired history, and its richest contribution.... The two stories, son's and mother's, beautifully juxtaposed, strike a graceful note at a time of racial polarization," (The New York Times Book Review).

02-12-2013, 02:24 PM	#1728
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