The Color of Water 10th Anniversary Edition

Riverhead Trade, 2006, Paperback

Product Details

Title: The Color of Water 10th Anniversary Edition
Sales Rank: 6658 in Books
Author: James McBride
Publisher: Riverhead Trade, 10 Anv edition, 2006-02-07, Paperback, 352 pages, ISBN: 159448192X
Package Dimensions: 7.9 x 5 x 0.8 inches, 0.7 pounds

Customer Reviews

Inspiring, powerful stuff ... and a must read.: I purchased this immediately after reading "Miracle at St. Anna" by the same author ... and after googling his name. What a great, inspirational, moving tribute (to his mom and his family) and story (for us all). This, along with movies like American History X, should be mandatory reading/viewing in high schools all across this country. Can diverse… More reviews

Good Book: This book is an autobiography by James McBride about the conjunction of an African-American male by the name of Andrew Dennis McBride and a Caucasian female by the name of Ruth McBride. After having twelve children, life becomes hectic in the McBride household. However, this chaos isn't quite as severe as the abuse that Ruth receives as a child.
Tateh, Ruth's father, sexually abuses,… More reviews

First rate memoir: I started to write first rate mixed-race memoir, but hell, this is just plain first rate writing no matter how you slice it. As one of 12 kids in desperately poor conditions, McBride survived and triumphed, as apparently did all 11 of his siblings. And they owe much of this to their mother, who did her best for them. This is a "double memoir," being… More reviews

Double standards: Lets imagine that a Jewish author writes a book that features all the well known evil racist stereotypes of Afro-Americans. Everyone would be up in arms (justifiably) and condemn the book. Here we have a book penned by an Afro-American that contains many anti-Semitic stereotypes supposedly related to the author by his mother who pathologically rejected her Jewish roots, and everyone praises… More reviews

Better than expected: I think this story trancends race. It's really just a story of a mother who made choices and gave her all in an extremely trying environement. I was moved. I read this after reading Miracle at St. Anna which was great! More reviews