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A Lyrical Memoir
West Virginia University Press
February 2023
On Sale: February 1, 2023
280 pages
ISBN: 1952271746
EAN: 9781952271748
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Non-Fiction Biography
The biracial coming-of-age journey of a boy from Black
and Jewish families—a “brilliant, devastating
book.”
The In-Betweens tells the story
of a biracial boy becoming a man, all the while trying to
find himself, trying to come to terms with his white family,
and trying to find his place in American society. A rich
narrative in the tradition of Justin Torres’s We
the Animals and Bryan Washington’s Memorial,
Davon Loeb’s memoir is relevant to the country’s
current climate and is part of the necessary rewrite of the
nation’s narrative and identity.
The son of a Black mother with deep family roots in
Alabama and a white Jewish man from Long Island, Loeb grows
up in a Black family in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey as
one of the few nonwhite children in their suburban
neighborhood. Despite his many and ongoing efforts to fit
in, Loeb acutely feels his difference—he is singled
out in class during Black History Month; his hair
doesn’t conform to the latest fad; coaches and peers
assume he is a talented athlete and dancer; and on the field
trip to the Holocaust Museum, he is the Black Jew. But all
is not struggle. In lyrical vignettes, Loeb vibrantly
depicts the freedom, joys, and wonder of childhood; the
awkwardness of teen years, first jobs, first passions. Loeb
tells an individual story universally, and readers,
regardless of subjectivity and relation, will see themselves
throughout The In-Betweens.
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