Three
things thatvalues are his mother, his siblings, and learning the truth about his biracial
identity. The entire book, as the subtitle indicates, is a tribute to his mother.
One place where McBride reveals how much he values his mother is in a part of her
narrative that he includes. While she and his father were married, she never traveled to North
Carolina, because they feared the family would be attacked. After his death, she takes his body
home to be buried. She later tells James,
I sat on that
train and said to myself, Im gonna take him home. I...
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