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The Color of Water

James McBride

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The Color Of Water James McBride "I read The Color of Water because my mother sent it to me. My mother basically was convinced that this was sort of an alter-ego biography of her life, and she really wanted me to read it. The story in the book actually does kind of relate to my mother's life in a way, because she grew up in poverty in the southwest and married a black man and was shunned from her family because of it, and she had me. It's written from the son's point of view, and this is actually a biography. It's written from his point of view as his crazy Jewish mother and growing up as a black person having a white mother. And I definitely had a lot of issues with that growing up. Culturally, people saying, "You're black," but I have a white mother. How do you reconcile that? So it definitely hit home pretty close for me. I felt like I got a really great insight into this person's family and into this character; and even though she wasn't perfect, you end up really liking her and all her bizarre quirks. I would definitely recommend this book to anybody who has been in an inter-racial relationship and had to struggle with that - single mothers who have had to struggle to support their families, because man - the main character in this - man, does she struggle! After I read the book, I definitely had more perspective on how it was for my mom raising kids on her own and different issues that she dealt with because, again, being shunned from your family because of inter-racial relationship, I never even gave that any thought. I would give The Color of Water four stars, just because I think it was really well written. For a biography it was wonderful."