The Color of Water
Just finished this remarkable book. It is a tribute to a white mother from a black son.
His mother is the daughter of a rabbi who escaped Europe with his wife (an arranged marriage) and children. His daughter Rachel (changes her name to Ruth) is a rebel, not without her reasons of child abuse by her father, and an ailing half blind mother who can do nothing about it. She finds solace with black people, and winds up married to a gentle, sweet black man, and has six children with him. He dies, suddenly, and after struggling, Ruth marries another gentle black man and has six more children. The story tells of her struggles, poverty, adoption of the Christian faith, and her rule over the children, which results in all of them becoming professionals. An inspiring book. the author is James McBride.” Truth is stranger than Fiction.”