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I missed again, and I’m sorry about that. I’ve been struggling lately!
Anyway. Last night I finished listening to The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother, and I have to say–it was fascinating. How an Orthodox Jew born in Poland spent her girlhood in the American South and then met and married a black man in New York–in 1936–seems baffling (to say the least–this is why “truth is stranger than fiction” is a thing), but James McBride relates his and his mother’s story with a compassion and directness that makes for an exceptionally readable memoir. (And one well worth reading.) Pick this up when you need to enter someone else’s world and be reminded of what human beings are capable of; I can almost promise that you’ll be glad you did.