Overview
In 1970, three-day-old Marra B. Gad was adopted by a white Jewish family in Chicago. For her parents, it was love at first sightābut they quickly realized the world wasnāt ready for a family like theirs.
Marraās biological mother was unwed, white, and Jewish, and her biological father was black. While still a child, Marra came to realize that she was āa mixed-race, Jewish unicorn.ā In black spaces, she was not āblack enoughā or told that it was OK to be Christian or Muslim, but not Jewish. In Jewish spaces, she was mistaken for the help, asked to leave, or worse. Even in her own extended family, racism bubbled to the surface.
Marraās family cut out those relatives who could not tolerate the color of her skināincluding her once beloved, glamorous, worldly Great-Aunt Nette. After they had been estranged for fifteen years, Marra discovers that Nette has Alzheimerās, and that only she is in a position to get Nette back to the only family she has left. Instead of revenge, Marra chooses love, and watches as the disease erases her auntās racism, making space for a relationship that was never possible before.
The Color of Love explores the idea of yerusha, which means "inheritance" in Yiddish. At turns heart-wrenching and heartwarming, this is a story about what you inherit from your familyāidentity, disease, melanin, hate, and most powerful of all, love. With honesty, insight, and warmth, Marra B. Gad has written an inspirational, moving chronicle proving that when all else is stripped away, love is where we return, and love is always our greatest inheritance.
This book title, The Color of Love (A Story of a Mixed-Race Jewish Girl), ISBN: 9781572842755, by Marra B. Gad, published by Agate Publishing (November 12, 2019) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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