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A personal meditation on love in the shadow of white privilege and racism

Child is the story of Judy Goldmans relationship with Mattie Culp the Black woman who worked for her family as a livein maid and helped raise herthe unconscionable scaffolding on which the relationship was built and the deep love It is also the story of Matties child who was left behind to be raised by someone else Judy now eighty crossexamines 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 heartwarming heartbreaking and ultimately inspiring