![]() ![]() ![]() Although Mameh is loving and devoted, Tateh is cruel, emotionally abusing his entire family and sexually abusing Ruth. Tateh and Mameh, Ruth’s mother, have three children, Ruth (born Ruchel, which is Americanized to Rachel), Gladys (who goes by Dee-Dee), and Sam. ![]() They immigrate to the United States, where her father, Tateh, works as a traveling rabbi before settling down and opening his own general store in Suffolk, Virginia. In the second timeline, told in alternating chapters, James tells his own life story, beginning in 1957, and ending with the book’s release in 1996.įollowing the narrative chronologically, the book begins in Poland where Ruth’s Orthodox Jewish parents meet and marry. In the first timeline, which spans the early 20th century up until 1957, Ruth, James McBride’s mother, tells the story of her family’s immigration to America, her childhood, and her early adulthood in New York City. The Color of Water takes place on two parallel timelines. ![]()
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