The+Color+of+Water

//The Color of Water// by James McBride The color of water is a black man, James McBride‘s tribute to his white mother. James McBride’s mother, Ruchel Dwajra Zylska was born an Orthodox Jew on April 1, 1921, April Fool’s Day, in Poland. When she came to America and changed her name to Rachel Deborah Shilsky. Her father, Fishel Shilsky, was a Jewish who married his wife, Hudis, that their marriage was never a marriage of love. Ruth describes her father as a "fox" and mother as "gentle and meek." Her mother’s had suffered polio as a child, Rachel began use new name "Ruth" in high school, and when she left for New York at age 19 and married a black man, Andrew McBride, her family thought her as if she were dead.

Ruth and his first husband, Andrew McBride, had eight children before he died by lung cancer. Andrew McBride was James McBride’s own father. Later, Ruth married with her second husband, Hunter Jordan, and added four more children. Hunter Jordan was died at seventy-two. When Jame's stepfather died, he dropped out of high school and failed every class.

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