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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )The Color of Water 10th Anniversary Editionby: James McBride  List Price: $14.00 Amazon.com's Price: $10.78 You Save: $3.22 (23%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 974.71004960730092 EAN: 9781594481925 Edition: 10 Anv ISBN: 159448192X Label: Riverhead Trade Manufacturer: Riverhead Trade Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 352 Publication Date: February 07, 2006 Publisher: Riverhead Trade Studio: Riverhead Trade Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Moving StoryThis was such a moving story. Mcbride's mother is such a strong woman, who stuck by her own beliefs and obviosly raised her kids very well with the resources that she had. I would recommend this book be added to your reading collection. Rating: - 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 peoples get along? To quote Sarah Palin (irony intended): "You betcha." This is a wonderful read. Bravo to Mr. McBride. Rating:  - Good BookThis 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, beats, and works Ruth as a youngster. Ruth is forced to work in a store that Tateh owns to help support ... Read More Rating: - First rate memoirI 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 the story of both the author and his mother, a Jewish immigrant who survived an abusive and nearly loveless childhood, but finally found love - twice - and ... Read More Rating:  - Double standardsLets 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 the book. I am both puzzled and offended. In addition if his mother had used the same child rearing practices 20 years ... Read More 
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