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Summary: Two amazing people, two amazing stories
Review: Ruth Jordan and David McBride may not look like mother and son, but they are. This story tells the tale of two people who over came problems such as poverty, discrimination, and self-loathing to let their true personality shine through. Ruth battled childhood abuse and adult poverty to find love and happiness with two strong black men, and the twelve children she raised. David McBride fought the perils of the inner-city (drugs, crime,and gangs) to go on to college and become a journalist. This is more than a tale of overcoming race and prejudice. This is more than a tale about overcoming social/economic barriers. This is a tale of dedicated love, and how that love can reshape our world.
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Summary: This might not even have made a good magazine article
Review: This is a purely awful book. Here is a guy who's entire group of siblings have been raised in an extremely difficult circumstance, each went on to advanced degrees, and he never asks what made their family special (other than their mother was white). He never peels the onion beyond the first thin layer. No questions are probed, other than where did his mother come from. When he finds the "where", there is no follow-up investigation, no probing of the family. This entire book would need more in-depth investigation or introspection to have made a good magazine article. As it is, it certainly does not fill a book.
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Summary: The Title Says it All
Review: A very moving book written in alternating chapters by a son and his mother. The story is told by James McBride who is the product of his white, Jewish mother and a black father. Ruth McBride Jordan, the mother, raised 12 children virtually on her own after the deaths of her two beloved husbands. The novel is a touching one full of sadness, success and laugh out loud moments. James McBride grows up struggling to understand why he is black and his mother is white. In writing the novel he learns of his mother's painful past and the things she endured to become the mother he knows and loves. You can't help falling in love with this family and when you find out the significance to "The Color of Water" you will be glad you read this outstanding book.
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Summary: THe Color of Water
Review: This is a truly remarkable story. It really put things in perspective for me and made me give thanks for my childhood, which was not nearly as difficult as James McBride's. His family faced difficulty after difficulty and his writing is superb. He is striaghtforward yet somewhat poetic in his descriptions of his youth. His mother should be proud to have such a son who is so eloquent in paying homage to the woman who struggled to raise her family despite poverty and racism.
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Summary: Makes You Want More!!
Review: The novel, The Color Of Water by James McBride makes your soul thirst and hunger for more because of the mother and childrens accomplishments. Great novel. Reccommended to EVERYONE!!
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Summary: Terrific
Review: I was given this book to read as an assignment in school. The book was very good and I enjoyed reading it. It was intresting to find out how the Daughter of a Jewish Rabbi can change into a Christian woman with 12 black Children. Kudos to James McBride.
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Summary: Mommy, what color is God?
Review: This book is an amazing voyage of discovery. McBride unravels a life forgotten and buried by a mother, who was born in 1921 to a Jewish Rabbi and his wife in Poland, and found Christianity and love in the arms of a black husband and her 12 children. The book tells two stories. The author tells of growing up in the projects of New York with a white mother and she tells her story of a young Jewish girl growing up in the south and then Harlem, always an outsider wanting only what all girls want, the love of her family and to be accepted. It was early on in life that Ruth Shilsky realized that this would never happen. She found herself up against some of the greatest odds a person could face in an era of blatant racial prejudice and a family that turned their back on her because she dared to be different. The life she made was a remarkable one and the children she produced are all extraordinary people, to put it in the words of the author. An inspiring read of warm languid prose, I couldn't put it down, nor could I stop rooting for "Mommy" who just never stopped moving forward. Kelsana 6/3/01
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Summary: Great Book
Review: Excellent! Sensitive, intelligent. A great read. I definitely recommend it!
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Summary: The best book i've read for school
Review: two words: READ IT! its a great book...its one of those books you can lose yourself in. and this is coming from a typical high-schooler...take my word for it..if a HSer likes it..its probabaly a great book.
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Summary: life
Review: I like this book that The Color of Water.After I read it, I can see that there were many different lives in the world. Such as race, marriage and education were diffcul than in the new world.It let me understund that our life is better than befor, we need to treasure and cherish it.
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