When I Was White: A Memoir by Sarah Valentine

When I Was White: A Memoir

Sarah Valentine

304 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir race challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

Description

The stunning and provocative coming-of-age memoir about Sarah Valentine's childhood as a white girl in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, and her discovery that her father was a black man. At the age of 27, Sarah Valentine discovered that she was not, in...

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reflective 100%
challenging 71%
emotional 57%
sad 14%
tense 14%

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medium 42%

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