The color of water : a Black man's tribute to his white mother

Author

James McBride

Call Number

• 921 M47722 (CEN)

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Edition

First Riverhead trade paperback 10th anniversary edition.

Publication Information

New York : Riverhead Books, 2006.

Physical Description

xix, 309 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Summary

An African American man describes life as the son of a white mother and Black father, reflecting on his mother's contributions to his life and his confusion over his own identity.

Notes

Originally published: 1997.

Contents

• Dead
• The bicycle
• Kosher
• Black power
• The Old Testament
• The New Testament
• Sam
• Brothers and sisters
• Shul
• School
• Boys
• Daddy
• New York
• Chicken man
• Graduation
• Driving
• Lost in Harlem
• Lost in Delaware
• The promise
• Old man Shilsky
• A bird who flies
• A Jew discovered
• Dennis
• New brown
• Finding Ruthie.