The Color of Love: A Mother's Choice in the Jim Crow South by Gene Cheek

The Color of Love: A Mother's Choice in the Jim Crow South

Gene Cheek

280 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir race emotional reflective slow-paced
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Cheek spins a mesmerizing yarn, told from a little boy's viewpoint, of growing up poor and white in 1950s North Carolina, surrounded by generations of wife-beating alcoholics. Through plain yet descriptive language seasoned with wry, biting adject...

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