Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
6.1
Points
11.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
69175
Points per Word
0.000159
Page Count
328
Points per Page
0.033537
Description
The author paints a portrait of growing up in a black neighborhood as the child of an interracial marriage. Although raised an Orthodox Jew in the South, McBride's mother abandoned her heritage, moved to Harlem, and married a black man.