{"id":42018,"date":"2015-07-27T18:23:32","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T18:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42018"},"modified":"2017-04-08T01:55:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-08T01:55:56","slug":"the-book-of-colors-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42018","title":{"rendered":"The Book of Colors: A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/unbridledbooks.com\/our_books\/book\/the_book_of_colors\" target=\"_blank\">The Book of Colors: A Novel<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/unbridledbooks.com\" target=\"_blank\">Unbridled Books<\/a><br \/>\n280 pages<br \/>\nMay 2015<br \/>\n5 1\/2 x 8 1\/4<br \/>\nISBN: 978-1-60953-115-7<br \/>\nEISBN: 978-1-60953-116-4<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/divinity.duke.edu\/academics\/faculty\/raymond-barfield\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Raymond Barfield<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Christian Philosophy<br \/>\n<em>Duke Divinity School, Durham, North Carolina<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/unbridledbooks.com\/our_books\/book\/the_book_of_colors\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unbridledbooks.com\/images\/uploads\/books\/BookofColors_lrg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How can a 19-year-old, mixed-race girl who grew up in a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crack_house\" target=\"_blank\">crack house<\/a> and is now pregnant be so innocent? Yslea is full of contradictions, though, seeming both young and old, innocent and wise. Her spirit is surprising, given all the pain she has endured, and that\u2019s the counterpoint this story offers\u2014while she sees pain and suffering all around her, Yslea overcomes in her own quiet way.<\/p>\n<p>What Yslea struggles with is expressing her thoughts. And she wonders if she will have something of substance to say to her baby. It\u2019s the baby growing inside her that begins to wake her up, that causes her to start thinking about things in a different way.<\/p>\n<p>Yslea drifts into the lives of four people who occupy three dilapidated row houses along the train tracks outside of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Memphis,_Tennessee\" target=\"_blank\">Memphis<\/a>: \u201cThe way their three little row houses sort of leaned in toward each other and the way the paint peeled and some of the windows were covered with cardboard, the row might as easily have been empty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She becomes an integral part of this little community, moving in with Rose who is old and dying. As her pregnancy progresses, everything changes within the three houses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can a 19-year-old, mixed-race girl who grew up in a crack house and is now pregnant be so innocent? Yslea is full of contradictions, though, seeming both young and old, innocent and wise. Her spirit is surprising, given all the pain she has endured, and that\u2019s the counterpoint this story offers\u2014while she sees pain and suffering all around her, Yslea overcomes in her own quiet way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,15,20],"tags":[19833,20543,878,20542],"class_list":["post-42018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-novels","category-usa","tag-memphis","tag-raymond-barfield","tag-tennessee","tag-unbridled-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42018"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53310,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42018\/revisions\/53310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}