ENGLISH

Child

By Judy Goldman

Book information

Publisher
University of South Carolina Press
Year
2022
ISBN
9781643362847, 9781643362830
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1258373 bytes)
Pages
\0
Time added
2022-10-30 16:16:44
Biography & Autobiography; History; Sociology; Non

Description

A 2022 Katie Couric Media Must-Read New Book A personal meditation on love in the shadow of white privilege and racism Child is the story of Judy Goldman's relationship with Mattie Culp, the Black woman who worked for her family as a live-in maid and helped raise her—the unconscionable scaffolding on which the relationship was built and the deep love. It is also the story of Mattie's child, who was left behind to be raised by someone else. Judy, now eighty, cross-examines what it was to be a privileged white child in the Jim Crow South, how a bond can evolve in and out of step with a changing world, and whether we can ever tell the whole truth, even to ourselves. It is an incandescent book of small moments, heart-warming, heartbreaking, and, ultimately, inspiring.

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