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The New York Times best-selling history from the writer of The Good Lord Bird, champion of the 2013 Country wide Book Award for Fiction. Who's Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared "light-skinned" female evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love on her behalf 12 dark-colored children. Wayne McBride, journalist, musician, and son, explores his mother's former, as well as his own upbringing and traditions, in a poignant and powerful debut, The Color Of Normal water: A African american Man's Tribute to His White Mother. The son of a dark-colored minister and a woman who not say she was white, Wayne McBride was raised in "orchestrated chaos" along with his 11 siblings in the indegent, all-black jobs of Red Hook, Brooklyn. In The Color of Normal water, McBride retraces his mother's footsteps and, through her searing and spirited speech, recreates her exceptional story. The girl of a failed itinerant Orthodox rabbi, she was created Rachel Shilsky (actually Ruchel Dwara Zylska) in Poland on April 1, 1921. Fleeing pogroms, her family emigrated to America and ultimately resolved in Suffolk, Virginia, a small town where anti-Semitism and racial tensions ran high. At 17, after fleeing Virginia and settling in NEW YORK, Ruth married a dark-colored minister and founded the all- dark-colored New Dark brown Memorial Baptist Chapel in her Red Hook living room. "God is the colour of drinking water," Ruth McBride educated her children, firmly convinced that life's blessings and life's prices transcend race. Interspersed throughout his mother's engaging narrative, McBride shares candid recollections of his own experience as a mixed-race child of poverty, his flirtations with drugs and violence, and his eventual self-realization and professional success. The Color of Normal water touches listeners of all colors as a vivid family portrait of growing up, a haunting deep breathing on contest and identification, and a lyrical valentine to a mom from her son.
