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The color of love : a story of a mixed-race Jewish girl by Gad, Marra B. is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Winner of the 2020 Midwest Book Award in Autobiography/Memoir, The Color of Love is an unforgettable memoir about a mixed-race Jewish woman who, after fifteen years of estrangement from her racist great-aunt, helps bring her home when Alzheimers strikes. In 1970, three-day-old Marra B. Gad was adopted by a white Jewish family in Chicago. For her parents, it was love at first sightbut they quickly realized the world wasnt ready for a family like theirs. Marras biological mother was unwed, white, and Jewish, and her biological father was black. While still a child, Marra came to realize that she was a mixed-race, Jewish unicorn. In black spaces, she was not black enough or told that it was OK to be Christian or Muslim, but not Jewish. In Jewish spaces, she was mistaken for the help, asked to leave, or worse. Even in her own extended family, racism bubbled to the surface. Marras family cut out those relatives who could not tolerate the color of her skinincluding her once beloved, glamorous, worldly Great-Aunt Nette. After they had been estranged for fifteen years, Marra discovers that Nette has Alzheimers, and that only she is in a position to get Nette back to the only family she has

Who reads The color of love : a story of a mixed-race Jewish girl?

Author

Gad, Marra B.

Publisher

Agate Bolden

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781572848344

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Biography, Memoir

Rating

4.3 / 5 (842 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14