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St. Martin's Griffin
June 2010
On Sale: June 8, 2010
288 pages
ISBN: 0312379099
EAN: 9780312379094
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Mishna Wolff grew up in a poor black neighborhood with her
single father, a white man who truly believed he was black.
“He strutted around with a short perm, a Cosby-esqe
sweater, gold chains and a Kangol—telling jokes like Redd
Fox, and giving advice like Jesse Jackson. You couldn’t
tell my father he was white. Believe me, I tried,” writes
Wolff. And so from early childhood on, her father began his
crusade to make his white daughter down. Unfortunately, Mishna didn’t quite fit in with the
neighborhood kids: she couldn’t dance, she couldn’t sing,
she couldn’t double Dutch and she was the worst player on
her all-black basketball team. She was shy, uncool, and
painfully white. And yet when she was suddenly sent to a
rich white school, she found she was too “black” to fit in
with her white classmates. I’m Down is a hip, hysterical and at the same time
beautiful memoir that will have you howling with laughter,
recommending it to friends and questioning what it means to
be black and white in America.
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