Black White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting SelfThe Civil Rights movement brought author Alice Walker and lawyer Mel Leventhal together, and in 1969 their daughter, Rebecca, was born. Some saw this unusual copper-colored girl as an outrage or an oddity; others viewed her as a symbol of harmony, a triumph of love over hate. But after her parents divorced, leaving her a lonely only child ferrying between two worlds that only seemed to grow further apart, Rebecca was no longer sure what she represented. In this book, Rebecca Leventhal Walker attempts to define herself as a soul instead of a symbol—and offers a new look at the challenge of personal identity, in a story at once strikingly unique and truly universal. |
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... eyes. I sumher up, comparehertoday with her another day, piece her psychetogether from all the strands of her childhood that Iknow. My eyes do all they canand then, asif consideringa collage by Bearden ora painting by van Gogh ...
... eyes. I sumher up, comparehertoday with her another day, piece her psychetogether from all the strands of her childhood that Iknow. My eyes do all they canand then, asif consideringa collage by Bearden ora painting by van Gogh ...
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... eyes. I slap my hands on the highchair, putting some cakeonit, too. My parents laughout loudfor afewseconds; then my father wraps hisarm around my mother'swaist, patting her hipwitha cupped hand.Forafew seconds we are frozen intime ...
... eyes. I slap my hands on the highchair, putting some cakeonit, too. My parents laughout loudfor afewseconds; then my father wraps hisarm around my mother'swaist, patting her hipwitha cupped hand.Forafew seconds we are frozen intime ...
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... eye. She leaves early one morning and doesn't come home until late the next day. I wait, listening all afternoonfor her keyin the lock. When thedoorfinally swingsopen andIsee the sleeve ofherdark blue winter coat, my heart jumps. Iwant ...
... eye. She leaves early one morning and doesn't come home until late the next day. I wait, listening all afternoonfor her keyin the lock. When thedoorfinally swingsopen andIsee the sleeve ofherdark blue winter coat, my heart jumps. Iwant ...
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... eyes tight and pretendthat I am so thatIcan stay in thedark dark forestwhere itis moist andgreen, where Iam surrounded by all my friends from the jungle. hree days a week Igoto Mrs. Cornelius's house for nursery school. Most oftenDaddy ...
... eyes tight and pretendthat I am so thatIcan stay in thedark dark forestwhere itis moist andgreen, where Iam surrounded by all my friends from the jungle. hree days a week Igoto Mrs. Cornelius's house for nursery school. Most oftenDaddy ...
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... hood, THEKLAN IS WATCHINGYOU inred letters underneath. She eyes the screen door, checks to see that it's locked, while my naked mosquitobitten legs swing carelessly back and B forth from up high on Daddy's lap. efore Igoto.
... hood, THEKLAN IS WATCHINGYOU inred letters underneath. She eyes the screen door, checks to see that it's locked, while my naked mosquitobitten legs swing carelessly back and B forth from up high on Daddy's lap. efore Igoto.
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Brooklyn | |
Morphology | |
Atlanta | |
San Francisco | |
Phoenicia | |
How Memory Works | |
Larchmont San Francisco | |
Monroe | |
Bellingham Ubud | |
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