Color of water, paperback/james mcbride

There are two voices in this complex and moving narrative, and on the surface they could not seem more different.

One is the voice of a black musician, composer and writer who traces his own evolution and that of his seven brothers and sisters from a childhood in a Brooklyn housing project to accomplished maturity.

The second voice is that of Rachel Shilsky, daughter of a failed itinerant Orthodox Jewish Rabbi in a.

violently racist small town.

The two stories, sons and mothers, beautifuly juxtaposed }New York Times Book Review{.