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In this award-winning memoir, a mixed-race Jewish woman recounts her journey, from adoption and prejudice to helping the family that once, shunned her.
Marra B. Gad's biological parents were a black man and a white Jewish woman. In 1970, at three days old, she was, adopted by a white Jewish family in Chicago. For them, it was love at first sight, but the world was not ready for a family like theirs. In black spaces, Marra was, considered "not black...
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Simon & Schuster
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2021.
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English
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"Nadia Owusu grew up all over the world--from Rome and London to Dar-es-Salaam and Kampala. When her mother abandoned her when she was two years old, the rejection caused Nadia to be confused about her identity. Even after her father died when she was thirteen and she was raised by her stepmother, she was unable to come to terms with who she was since she still felt motherless and alone. When Nadia went to university in America when she was eighteen...
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