The Color of Love: A Story of a Mixed-Race Jewish Girl

The Color of Love: A Story of a Mixed-Race Jewish Girl

An unforgettable memoir about a mixed-race Jewish woman who, after fifteen years of estrangement from her racist great-aunt, helps bring her home when Alzheimerâ€™s strikes

In 1970, three-day-old Marra B. Gad was adopted by a white Jewish family in Chicago. For her parents, it was love at first sightâ€”but they quickly realized the world wasnâ€™t ready for a family like theirs.

Marraâ€™s biological mother was unwed, white, and Jewish, and her biological father was black. While still a child, Marra came to realize that she was â€œa mixed-race, Jewish unicorn.â€ In black spaces, she was not â€œblack enoughâ€ or told that it was OK to be Christian or Muslim, but not Jewish. In Jewish spaces, she was mistaken for the help, asked to leave, or worse. Even in her own extended family, racism bubbled to the surface.

Marraâ€™s family cut out those relatives who could not tolerate the color of her skinâ€”including her once beloved, glamorous, worldly Great-Aunt Nette. After they had been estranged for fifteen years, Marra discovers that Nette has Alzheimerâ€™s, and that only she is in a position to get Nette back to the only family she has left. Instead of revenge, Marra chooses love, and watches as the disease erases her auntâ€™s racism, making space for a relationship that was never possible before.

The Color of Love explores the idea of yerusha, which means "inheritance" in Yiddish. At turns heart-wrenching and heartwarming, this is a story about what you inherit from your familyâ€”identity, disease, melanin, hate, and most powerful of all, love. With honesty, insight, and warmth, Marra B. Gad has written an inspirational, moving chronicle proving that when all else is stripped away, love is where we return, and love is always our greatest inheritance.
Country USA
Brand Agate Bolden
Manufacturer Agate Bolden
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber RKC0003467178
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781572842755
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Agate Bolden
Manufacturer	Agate Bolden
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	RKC0003467178
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781572842755
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

The Color of Love: A Story of a Mixed-Race Jewish Girl

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