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Book Review of Life on the Color Line : The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black

Life on the Color Line : The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black
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Astonishing and riveting, not least because I am only 6 years younger than the author and grew up in the same small city.

1950s race relations (in the Midwest) and child poverty are large parts of Williams's memoir. This brilliantly written book may be the best I have obtained from paperbackswap in my 7 or 8 years as a member.