Full name: Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self

Author: Rebecca Walker Year: 2000 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Memoirs, Non Fiction, Award winners Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads LibraryThing Amazon ISBNs: 9781573229074 1573229075

The 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. Similar books: Elsewhere by Richard Russo Too Close to the Falls by Catherine Gildiner What Remains by Carole Radziwill Let Me Finish by Roger Angell Extreme by Sharon Osbourne My Mother Was Nuts by Penny Marshall The Death of Santini by Pat Conroy The Sum of Our Days by Isabel Allende Goat by Brad Land Seldom Disappointed by Tony Hillerman Dead End Gene Pool by Wendy Burden Burning the Days by James Salter My History by Antonia Fraser An Open Book by Monica Dickens A House Unlocked by Penelope Lively On Writing by Stephen King When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom Born a Crime by Trevor Noah Educated by Tara Westover