The Color of Water Art & Culture 2) Select TICKET & DONATION

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Taking the measure of the tradition in a single indispensable volume

In Black on Both Sides

and explores some of the multiple reasons and realms in which people sometimes feel pulled to live as something other than their origins

The Color of Water Art & Culture 2) Select TICKET & DONATION*Ships in 7 10 business days* In The Color of Water, McBride retraces his mother's footsteps and, through her searing and spirited voice, recreates her remarkable story. The daughter of a failed itinerant Orthodox rabbi, she was born Rachel Shilsky (actually Ruchel Dwara Zylska) in Poland on April 1, 1921. Fleeing pogroms, her family emigrated to America and ultimately settled in Suffolk, Virginia, a small town where anti Semitism and racial tensions