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<p><P>This national bestseller tells the story of James McBride and his mother&#151;a rabbi's daughter, born in Poland and raised in the South, who fled to Harlem, married a black man, founded a church, and put 12 children through college. Unabridged. 6 CDs.</p><h3>Salon - James Marcus</h3><p>At a time when the relationship between African-Americans and Jews is deeply fissured, <i>The Color of Water</i> reminds us that the two groups have a long history of coexistence -- sometimes within a single person. The author's mother, Ruth Shilsky, was born in Poland in 1920, the daughter of an Orthodox Jewish rabbi. She grew up in rural Virginia, hemmed in by anti-Semitism and small-town claustrophobia, and at the age of 18 she fled to the cultural antipodes of Harlem. There, four years later, she married a black man named Dennis McBride, and since her family promptly disowned her, she launched a second existence as (to quote her son) "a flying compilation of competing interests and conflicts, a black woman in white skin." The lone Caucasian in her Brooklyn housing project, she somehow raised 12 children without ever quite admitting she was white. In retrospect, of course, her son is able t

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Author

McBride, James, 1957-

Publisher

New York: Riverhead Books

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9781573225786

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Social Science, Fiction, Memoir

Rating

4.06 / 5 (312 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14