Detailed explanations, analysis, and citation info for every important quote on litcharts. Chapters 17, chapters 815, chapters 1621, chapter 22epilogue. Albans section of queens, the only white person in. When james mcbride was growing up in brooklyn, his mother was evasive about her origins. The chapters alternate between james mcbrides descriptions of his early life and firstperson accounts of his mother ruths life, mostly taking.
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