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All the Colors We Will See
All the Colors We Will See: Reflections on Barriers, Brokenness, and Finding Our Way | Patrice Gopo
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Patrice Gopo grew up in Anchorage, Alaska, the child of Jamaican immigrants who had little experience being black in America. From her white Sunday school classes as a child, to her early days of marriage in South Africa, to a new home in the American South with a husband from another land, Patrices life is a testament to the challenges and beauty of the world we each live in, a world in which cultures overlap every day. In All the Colors We Will See, Patrice seamlessly moves across borders of space and time to create vivid portraits of how the reality of being different affects her quest to belong. In this poetic and often courageous collection of essays, Patrice examines the complexities of identity in our turbulent yet hopeful time of intersecting heritages. As she digs beneath the layers of immigration questions and race relations, Patrice also turns her voice to themes such as marriage and divorce, the societal beauty standards we hold, and the intricacies of living out our faith. With an eloquence born of pain and longing, Patrices reflections guide us as we consider our own journeys toward belonging, challenging us to wonder if the very differences dividing us might bring us together after all.
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JenniferEgnor
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This is a beautifully written memoir about the life experience of the author: her Black, Jamaican, Indian American experience. She shares her memories of childhood, her parents, college, travel, meeting her husband, their children. The importance of memory, heritage, family tradition and culture. She also shares her experiences of racism. Recommend.

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BookNAround
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Thoughtful and personal essays about belonging, race, identity, and family from the Alaskan born daughter of Jamaican immigrants. Full review at http://booknaround.blogspot.com/2018/11/review-all-colors-we-will-see-by.html

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CandycaneBelle
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Im starting this one today and am looking forward to it!

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sherri
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*sigh* This book. ❤️ A memoir about belonging, identity, race. I think people of color will be able to relate to Gopo‘s stories, and I think white people need to hear more stories from people of color. We have a responsibility to learn. All the Colors We Will See is an easy entry point to this conversation.

Full review at www.sherrireads.com (link in profile). #allthecolorswewillsee #netgalley

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sherri
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On a train, starting a new galley.

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BookNAround
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Yummy lunch time. I‘m about to start this one from a debut author local to me. We have a mutual friend who connected us and I agreed to review the book but told her it would be August or September before I got around to it. Finally have the time! (Also, not shown is the cheesecake slice I guiltily bought at the grocery store today.)