McBride, J. - THE COLOR OF WATER: A Black Man's Tribute to his White Mother - Paperback RAINBOW ROSE WINDOW offering a variant on the

offering a variant on the sonnet form that is both lyric and dramatic and bringing his masterful formal inventiveness to free verse

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McBride, J. - THE COLOR OF WATER: A Black Man's Tribute to his White Mother - Paperback RAINBOW ROSE WINDOW offering a variant on theCommon Reading 2007 Paperback by James McBride Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self declared "light skinned" woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love for her twelve black children. James McBride, journalist, musician, and son, explores his mother's past, as well as his own upbringing and heritage, in a poignant and powerful debut, The Color Of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother. ISBN: 978 1 5944 8192 5