The Color of Water (Paperback, New edition)

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 mother's 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)

A memoir whose narrative features two voices: that of a black musician growing up in Brooklyn with his 11 brothers and 11 sisters; and his mother, daughter of a failed itinerant Orthodox Jewish rabbi, who lives in a violently racist small southern town.

General

Imprint:	Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 1998
Authors:	James McBride
Dimensions:	198 x 130 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	228
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-7475-3832-5
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Composers & musicians Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Biography > General Books > Music > Composers & musicians
LSN:	0-7475-3832-8
Barcode:	9780747538325

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