The Color of Water Chapters 1-8

When I first saw this book on the list, I thought this was going to be my least favorite. I bought it and I thought it was going to be another emotional revolution books for Black Americans that I could only be interested in if it was in a movie. But after the first few chapters it got really interesting and I couldn't put it down. I went through it pretty fast without even realizing it. I had to stop after each chapter and think about some of the connections of James and his mother to completely understand them, however. Ruth isn't exactly the best mother, but it most likes comes from her childhood and life experiences, like her mother having polio and her grandfather dying when she was at a young age. James is respectful and kinda protective of his mother, like when he assumed the Black Panther was going to harm his mother and he punched the Black Panthers son in the face. That was very unexpected. It kinda confused me that James had such curiosity of his family's background and his mother never really gave him a straight answer in the beginning. I thought it was pretty smart that Ruth told James, God was the color of water, meaning like he's no particular color; he doesn't discriminate. That part really caught my attention.