The author's
purpose in writing this novel is to explore and connect with his own sense of identity. This
book is a tribute to the author's mother, but in being that, it is also an autobiography. 's
choice to tell his mother's story while he was growing up is also an opportunity to explore his
story and to discover his identity through examining his mother's, as well as the experiences
that he had in his youth.
The racial tension that exists between black people
and white people was always obvious to McBride. He says that he recognized his mother's
"contradictions" and the way that she kept herself from having a crisis of identity.
These contradictions also intimately affect McBride's life as he grows up as a biracial child,
and many of the experiences he shares in the book reflect his attempts to play out an identity
crisis of his own.
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