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As a boy in Brooklyn's Red Hook projects, James McBride knew his mother was different. But when he asked about it, she'd simply say 'I'm light-skinned.' Later he wondered if he was different too, and asked his mother if he was black or white. 'You're a human being,' she snapped. 'Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!' And when James asked what colour God was, she said 'God is the colour of water.' As an adult, McBride finally persuaded his mother to tell her story - the story of a rabbi's daughter, born in Poland and raised in the South, who fled to Harlem, married a black man, founded a Baptist church, and put twelve children through college.

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Book category Books in English The arts Music Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups

• Full title: Color of Water
• Author: James McBride
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• EAN: 9780747538325
• ISBN: 0747538328
• ID: 04135118
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Weight: 212 g
• Dimensions: 197 × 132 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 13. October 1998

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