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A take-no-prisoners tale of growing up without knowing who you are
Picador
February 2008
On Sale: January 22, 2008
Featuring: David Matthews
320 pages
ISBN: 0312426313
EAN: 9780312426316
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Non-Fiction Memoir
David Matthews was born on the line between races. His
mother was white, but she disappeared when he was an infant,
leaving him with pale skin and the prospect of a Jewish
identity. His father was black, a journalist and activist
who counted Malcolm X among his friends. So growing up in
the Baltimore ghetto in the 1980s, Matthews had a choice. He
took one look at the school lunchroom and chose white. But
that choice took on new implications when he came home to a
neighborhood where his chosen race was a liability, if not a
hazard. In the years that followed, Matthews slipped in and
out of identities as the situation demanded, making use of
each to get what he needed. He read the culture around him,
soaked up its expectations, biases, and passwords, and
fashioned a character that could only exist in this
generation in America, an exuberant, open-minded,
opportunistic young man making up his life and identity on
the fly.
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