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Child: A Memoir
2023 Southern Book Prize Nonfiction Finalist - A 2022 Katie Couric Media Must-Read New Book - A personal meditation on love in the shadow of white privilege and racism
Child is the story of Judy Goldman's relationship with Mattie Culp, the Black woman who worked for her family as a live-in maid and helped raise her--the unconscionable scaffolding on which the relationship was built and the deep love. It is also the story of Mattie's child, who was left behind to be raised by someone else. Judy, now eighty, cross-examines what it was to be a privileged white child in the Jim Crow South, how a bond can evolve in and out of step with a changing world, and whether we can ever tell the whole truth, even to ourselves. It is an incandescent book of small moments, heart-warming, heartbreaking, and, ultimately, inspiring.
Book Details
- Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
- Publish Date: May 24th, 2022
- Pages: 160
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.70in - 5.30in - 0.60in - 0.40lb
- EAN: 9781643362830
- Categories: • Memoirs• Cultural & Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Bl• United States - State & Local - South (AL,AR,FL,GA,KY,LA,MS,
About the Author
Judy Goldman is the award-winning author of seven books including Together: A Memoir of a Marriage and a Medical Mishap, named one of the best books of 2019 by Real Simple. She lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Praise for this book
A gently told memoir of a cherished woman.
-- "Kirkus"[Goldman] looks back on her life with a discerning eye that is able to appraise the dichotomy of her Southern upbringing. This act of remembering and then re-seeing brings a whiplash of honest realizations to the memoir's pages.... Child shows that truth--at least truth of a sort--can be found.
-- "SouthPark"[A] fascinating memoir...
-- "The Charlotte Jewish News"Child is brave and lyrically told, a hymn of praise to a woman Goldman adored.
-- "Charlotte Observer"A rich memoir that is long overdue, Child examines a Jewish child's loving relationship with a Black woman in the segregated South.
-- "Foreword Reviews"South-turned-North Carolinian Judy Goldman has essentially mastered the art of the memoir. This book unpacks a common Southern experience (that I won't give away here) with such poise and grace. It's also up for the Southern book award for nonfiction! Just read it and, if you like to, check out her other books.
--Zoe Yarborough, StyleBlueprint[An] honest look at a complicated and important relationship.... That sense of investigation between writer and reader makes Child a remarkable achievement.
-- "North Carolina Literary Review"