The
Color of Love A Story Of A Mixed Race Jewish Girl By Marra B. Gad from Agate
Publishing. An unforgettable memoir and a story of our moment, ripe with themes
of identity, racism, and family politics.
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 sight but they quickly
realized the world wasn’t ready for a family like theirs. Marra’s biological
mother was unwed, white, and Jewish, and her biological father was black. While
still a child, Marra came to realize that she was “a mixed-race, Jewish
unicorn.” In black spaces, she was not “black enough” 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.
