The Color of Water

Name: The Color of Water
Author: James McBride

by James McBride

Memoir interweaving McBride's African-American identity with his mother's Jewish heritage

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James McBride

McBride's The Color of Water is a memoir about his white Jewish mother and the multiracial family she created that became one of the most beloved American memoirs of the 1990s. He is also a distinguished novelist and jazz musician.

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