‘I tried to be what white people valued’ — a searing memoir of growing up biracial |
‘I tried to be what white people valued’ — a searing memoir of growing up biracial
The Chicago Tribune
2017-11-10
Heidi Stevens, Contact Reporter
Julie Lythcott-Haims’ “Real American: A Memoir” tells her story of growing up with an African-American father and a white British mother in the 1970s and early ’80s in New York, Wisconsin and Virginia. (Julie Lythcott-Haims photo by Kristina Vetter) |
Julie Lythcott-Haims has written a deeply affecting memoir about growing up biracial.
It’s poetic and candid, and it dives into discussions we really ought to be having about race in America — past, present and future.
“Real American: A Memoir” (Henry Holt) tells Lythcott-Haims’ story of growing up with an African-American father and a white British mother in the 1970s and early ’80s in New York, Wisconsin and Virginia. It’s a series of essays that read like individual poems — some brief, some ballads — that work together to narrate her life.
One goes like this:…
Read the entire article here.
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