The Color of Water - McBride, James
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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. You re a human being, she snapped. Educate yourself or you`ll be a nobody! And when James asked what colour God was, she said God is the colour 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.…mehr

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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. You re a human being, she snapped. Educate yourself or you`ll be a nobody! And when James asked what colour God was, she said God is the colour 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.
Autorenporträt
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.