Review for The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother : This book is incredible, I have never been so frightened reading a book and yet so riveted that I couldn't stop reading. I loved this book. It grabbed me from the first page and I had trouble putting it down. Read it, you won't be disappointed.
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother info
Describes growing up in a Brooklyn housing project, one of twelve children of a white mother and black father, discussing his mother's contributions to his life and coming to terms with confusion over his own identity. Read by Andre Braugher & Lainie Kazan. Book available.Order this book ... and please don't be put off by its pallid subtitle, A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother, which doesn't begin to do justice to the utterly unique and moving story contained within. The Color of Water tells the remarkable story of Ruth McBride Jordan, the two good men she married, and the 12 good children she raised. Jordan, born Rachel Shilsky, a Polish Jew, immigrated to America soon after birth; as an adult she moved to New York City, leaving
