Bibliograph

Child, a memoir, Judy Goldman

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Child, a memoir, Judy Goldman

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Child

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Judy Goldman

Sub title

a memoir

Summary

A 2022 Katie Couric Media Must-Read New Book - A personal meditation on love in the shadow of white privilege and racism Child is the story of Judy Goldman's relationship with Mattie Culp, the Black woman who worked for her family as a live-in maid and helped raise her-the unconscionable scaffolding on which the relationship was built and the deep love. It is also the story of Mattie's child, who was left behind to be raised by someone else. Judy, now eighty, cross-examines what it was to be a privileged white child in the Jim Crow South, how a bond can evolve in and out of step with a changing world, and whether we can ever tell the whole truth, even to ourselves. It is an incandescent book of small moments, heart-warming, heartbreaking, and, ultimately, inspiring

Target audience

adult

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