The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride P

Description: The Color of Water by James McBride This is James McBrides tribute to his remarkable, eccentric, determined mother, and an eloquent exploration of what family and the colour of your skin really means FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description _______________A triumph - New York Times Book ReviewA startling, tender-hearted tribute to a woman for whom the expression tough love might have been invented - The TimesAs lively as a novel, a well-written, thoughtful contribution to the literature on race - Washington Post_______________MORE THAN TWO YEARS ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIST_______________From the New York Times bestselling author of Deacon King Kong and The Good Lord Bird, winner of the National Book Award for Fiction, came this modern classic that Oprah.com calls one of the best memoirs of a generation and that launched James McBrides literary career.As a boy in Brooklyns Red Hook projects, James McBride knew his mother was different. But when he asked her about it, shed simply say Im light-skinned. Later he wondered if he was different too, and asked his mother if he was black or white. Youre a human being! Educate yourself or youll be a nobody! she snapped back. And when James asked about God, she told him God is the color of water.This is the remarkable story of an eccentric and determined woman: a rabbis daughter, born in Poland and raised in the Deep South who fled to Harlem, married a black preacher, founded a Baptist church and put twelve children through college. A celebration of resilience, faith and forgiveness, The Color of Water is an eloquent exploration of what family really means._______________Inspiring - GlamourVibrant - Boston GlobeA wonderfully evocative, moving book - Literary Review Notes "There are two voices in this complex and moving narrative, and on the surface they could not seem more different. One is the voice of a black musician, composer and writer who traces his own evolution and that of his seven brothers and sisters from a childhood in a Brooklyn housing project to accomplished maturity. The second voice is that of Rachel Shilsky, daughter of a failed itinerant Orthodox Jewish Rabbi in a... violently racist small town. The two stories, sons and mothers, beautifuly juxtaposed" New York Times Book Review. Author Biography James McBride is an accomplished musician and author of the National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird, the #1 bestselling American classic The Color of Water, and the bestsellers Song Yet Sung and Miracle at St. Anna. He is also the author of Kill Em and Leave, a James Brown biography. A recipient of the National Humanities Medal in 2016, McBride is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University. Review A triumph * New York Times Book Review *A startling, tender-hearted tribute to a woman for whom the expression tough love might have been invented * The Times *As lively as a novel, a well-written, thoughtful contribution to the literature on race * Washington Post *Inspiring * Glamour *Vibrant * Boston Globe *What is stunning here is the grace and compassion with which a young writer captures how shadows, once thrown, are cast across many generations, while celebrating at the same time a real melting-pot of cultures * Financial Times *A wonderfully evocative, moving book ... beautifully flowing prose, interlaced with compassion and humour * Literary Review * Promotional This is James McBrides tribute to his remarkable, eccentric, determined mother, and an eloquent exploration of what family and the colour of your skin really means Kirkus UK Review When James McBride asked his mother, Ruth, what colour God was, she told him He was the colour of water. Growing up black in Brooklyn, James wondered at his mothers light skin, and only later learned she had been born Ruchel Zylska, an Orthodox Jew. After her family fled from Poland during the war to settle in Virginia, she escaped her abusive father to live in Harlem, where she married a black man. She changed her name, founded a Baptist church with her husband and put 12 high-flying children through college. This double autobiography tells the story of Ruth and her son, each reflecting the experience of the other as they grow up in a world where racial categories threaten to overcome personal identities. (Kirkus UK) Kirkus US Review An eloquent narrative in which a young black man searches for his roots - against the wishes of his mother. McBride, a professional saxophonist and former staff writer for the Boston Globe and the Washington Post, grew up with 11 siblings in an all-black Brooklyn, New York, housing project. As a child, he became aware that his mother was different from others around him: She was white, and she kept secrets. When asked where she was from, McBride recalls, she would say something like "God made me"; when asked about her ethnicity, she would say," Im light-skinned, and change the subject." No amount of prodding could get her to say much more, and McBride was left to explore his mothers past without much help from his principal subject. What he learned occupies the pages of this vivid, affecting memoir: the story of a woman whose parents fled the anti-Jewish pogroms of Central Europe for the American South, there to be faced with new prejudices and develop a few of their own; a woman whose father sexually abused her for years and who "would run down the back roads where the black folks lived" to escape him; a woman who moved to New York, married a black minister, and raised eight children, then remarried on his death and raised four more. "My parents were nonmaterialistic. They believed that money without knowledge was worthless, that education tempered with religion was the way to climb out of poverty in America, and over the years they were proven right," McBride writes. The catalogue of his siblings with which he closes his book bears him out: Most have gone on to be doctors, educators, and professionals, with resumes of unbroken success. McBrides mother should take much pleasure in this loving if sometimes uncomfortable memoir, which embodies family values of the best kind. Other readers will take pleasure in it as well. (Kirkus Reviews) Details ISBN0747538328 Author James McBride Pages 256 Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Year 1998 ISBN-10 0747538328 ISBN-13 9780747538325 Format Paperback Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Subtitle A Black Mans Tribute to His White Mother Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 306.846092 Media Book Edition New edition UK Release Date 1998-10-13 Publication Date 1998-10-13 AU Release Date 1998-10-13 NZ Release Date 1998-10-13 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:573478;

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