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The In-Betweens - A Lyrical Memoir (Paperback)
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The In-Betweens - A Lyrical Memoir (Paperback)
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The biracial coming-of-age journey of a boy from Black and Jewish
families—a “brilliant, devastating book.” The In-Betweens
tells the story of a biracial boy becoming a man, all the while
trying to find himself, trying to come to terms with his white
family, and trying to find his place in American society. A rich
narrative in the tradition of Justin Torres’s We the Animals and
Bryan Washington’s Memorial, Davon Loeb’s memoir is relevant to
the country’s current climate and is part of the necessary
rewrite of the nation’s narrative and identity. The son of a
Black mother with deep family roots in Alabama and a white Jewish
man from Long Island, Loeb grows up in a Black family in the Pine
Barrens of New Jersey as one of the few nonwhite children in their
suburban neighborhood. Despite his many and ongoing efforts to fit
in, Loeb acutely feels his difference—he is singled out in class
during Black History Month; his hair doesn’t conform to the
latest fad; coaches and peers assume he is a talented athlete and
dancer; and on the field trip to the Holocaust Museum, he is the
Black Jew. But all is not struggle. In lyrical vignettes, Loeb
vibrantly depicts the freedom, joys, and wonder of childhood; the
awkwardness of teen years, first jobs, first passions. Loeb tells
an individual story universally, and readers, regardless of
subjectivity and relation, will see themselves throughout The
In-Betweens.
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