Memoir, 256 pp. 1995
Ruth McBride Jordan narrates the hardships she overcame as a Polish Jewish immigrant in rural Virginia who chose to marry a black man in 1942 and convert to Christianity. Her account is interspersed in alternating chapters with her son’s struggle to discover his mother’s past and develop his own identity.
Kirkus Review
Reviewby H. Jack Geiger, New York Times, March 31, 1996
John Bersia interviews James McBride, Global Perspectives, May 16, 2012 (15 min. video)
