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Summary: The Best Colar
Review: I like this book is very amazing. Ruth try to work so hard to succide on the world she was living at that time. At that was difficult wthite people to married a black people. She is a steadfast mother.
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Summary: What a interesting book.
Review: The Coloro Of Water is an interesting book based in a true story. Moter's and son's life with a lot awesome chapters. Mrs. McBride is the mother of the author'S book who induce his mother to talk about her past. The past that was sad but interesting at the same time. When Mrs McBride started to talk. It was like all the her past meved her son's life too because part of her was in his side. Mrs. McBride was a white woman who warried a black man her son was black, so the confusion of feelings made him unhappy after he knew about his heredity he felt very proud of his mother who give birth to 12 children all of the successful. Furthermore, she abandonede her heritage and after she got married she changed her religion too. This story is out of common's live.
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Summary: incredible book
Review: This book is one of the most interesting because compare the difference of the human color with God's color. No one know God, and this book show me that God is the color of everybody's feelings isn't black is either white. God is only the color of water.
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Summary: Wonderful book
Review: It is a wonderful book.I think people need to read this book.It is a wonderful sense of realism book.If people read this book they will love it.
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Summary: Unforgettable Book
Review: This is an amazing book which we recommend to anybody who likes poignant,heartwarning and remarkable books. We love it because it shows the struggle of million of people in decades ago just in one family. you could see how discrimination embraced and destroy communities and families. The author's manner of writing impressed us in many ways. James McBride made us cry,laugh and even made us think that we all are equal. It made us reflect that even though we have certain differences, we all come from the same God.
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Summary: Unforgettable
Review: I read many books, but this book is unforgettable. I love this book, and recomend it to all those persons who have good sense of humor. When I read this book I felt that I was a part of a book. This is my wish, to meet Ruth and James McBride.
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Summary: transcendent memoir soars with love, dignity and truth
Review: I happily echo the much-deseved accolades James McBride's remarkable, soaring memoir, "The Color of Water" has earned. Part history, part biography of his beloved, steadfast mother, and part introspective autobiography, "Color" is one of those rare volumes which simultaneously educates and inspires. It is written in the crucible of love, pain and discovery and treats the most profoundly troublesome issues of our national experience: race and religion, how one becomes an American and at what costs, what constitutes a family, and the seemingly impossible quest for identity in the child/adult of "mixed" parentage."Color" is written in alternating chapters with alternating voices. Mr. McBride describes and analyzes his own life with extraordinary care and precision. Looming above his growth is his mother, a Jewish immigrant who eventually embraces Christianity, a white who twice marries African-American men, a victim of a truly villainous father, an indominable force in her own family for education and faith. McBride not only understands how his mother represents these volcanic character faults and stresses; he clearly analyzes how the contradictory impulses swirling within Rachel/Ruth McBride Jordan coalesce and cohere. McBride's mother, both in his descriptions and her own delicious, acerbic, trusting, dynamic, forceful, strident and moving language, is a genuine American icon -- or ought to be. A Jewish Christian, white who realy is black, Southerner who lives in Brooklyn, immigrant and archtypical Amerianized immigrant -- Ruth/Rachel speaks directly to us. I truly believe that no-one could read her words dry-eyed. Sections of her life's story simply left me devastated, only to be wrenched back to reality with a tart, sardonic comment. McBride's mother is not only personally wise, she is sociologically perceptive. Her comments on the possibilities and costs of Americanization ring true today: "Mameh's sisters were more about money than anything else, and any hurts that popped up along the way, they just swept them under the rug. They were all trying hard to be American, you know, not knowing what to keep and what to leave behind. But you know what happens when you do that. If you throw water on thge floor, it will always find a hole, believe me." I feel "Color" ought be required reading for every American. Rich in love and faith, this memoir reminds us that our deepest wounds and most terrible hurts and betrayals can be overcome if we possess a love for education, a steadfast faith and a parent who never, never, never lets us forget how deeply we are loved.
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Summary: Buy It Now!
Review: This is a wonderful story that belongs on your bookshelf (after having read it several times, of course). My Mom recommended it to me a few years ago, and I read it in a single sitting. The story is gripping, heartwarming, and inspiring all at once. James McBride tells the true story of his Polish mom and African American dad, alternating every chapter between his mom's perspective and his own. In an age of commercialized, pre-packaged, and shrink-wrapped Chicken Soup around every corner, a (true!) story like "The Color of Water" is a must-read. Definitely check it out.
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Summary: Finding one's true self.....
Review: Growing up, you only know what you're told. You believe everything that your parents tell you, and their word is law. Mr. McBride must have been thrown for a loop when he found out his mother was actually a Jewish immigrant, and not a light skinned Black woman as she'd told him when he asked her if she was white, as a child. Growing up, all he knew was that she looked different, and was different in her own way, but he didn't know just what the difference was. Until he grew up..... This book is a must read for people of all races, religions, and origins. A wonderful book; beautifully written; a must have.
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Summary: When you feel there is too much against you, read this book
Review: This book delves into the topics of religion, race, personal history, and triumph. If anyone has ever questioned how hard their life was (or is) this book will re-affirm that most anything can be overcome and that there is no excuse for not succeeding. The author pours his life out in a simple text that is easy to read; anyone from a teenager to an adult will comprehend the motive behind McBride telling his story. Some reviews of this story have complained that it is anti-semetic, or racist in some ways. This is a true story of a real woman's struggle to find her faith and a man's story of determining where his race falls into place. The major gist of the novel is outlined in the title- A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother. McBride retells of his comfusion growing up with two different colored parents, neither of which he completely resembled, and the ensuing quandry of who he really is. But if you believe that this is just a case of race identification, that is just the beginning. He is also being raised by a Jewish mother, who converts to Christianity. His mother overcomes great odds against her and her family (race issues prevalent in the South in the 40's and on, religious background, poverty, death, etc.) to accomplish a remarkable goal of parenting twelve incredibly successful children. There is never an excuse for failure, and McBride's story proves that in the face of every adversity, people can prosper. This is a wonderful, feel-good book that will have you convinced of the power of determination. Whenever you feel that you are powerless to succeed, or that too many odds are against you, this book will give you renewed hope that life is never a lost cause.
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