Search results
Marra B. Gadis an award-winning author, speaker and independent writer/producer. As president of Egad! Productions, she oversees the development and production of scripted television series and films. A grateful child of adoption, Marra speaks internationally about her own transracial adoption in 1970, and her experiences being Black and ...
Jan 6, 2020 · Marra Gad’s new memoir sheds light on the racism as well as the love she has encountered as a biracial Jew in and out of the Jewish community. Marra Gad’s new memoir, “ The Color of Love: A Story of a Mixed-Race Jewish Girl ,” is the multilayered story of her life as a biracial Jew. Although it has been a life with loving parents, there ...
Jun 8, 2020 · Marra B. Gad. Photo by Bobby Quillard. At a time when race and identity are at the forefront of Americans’ minds, author and independent film and television producer Marra B. Gad has released ...
Nov 12, 2019 · The compassion, patience, and caring required of anyone in Marra’s position is exquisitely demonstrated in this book: it has a lot to teach us.” —Jane Wolf Frances, social worker, psychologist, and author of Parenting Our Parents: Transforming the Challenge into a Journey of Love “ The Color of Love by Marra B. Gad is a book I wish had ...
- (888)
- $11.49
- Marra B. Gad
- Agate Bolden
Nov 12, 2019 · Marra B. Gad. Winner of the 2020 Midwest Book Award in Autobiography/Memoir, The Color of Love is an unforgettable memoir about a mixed-race Jewish woman who, after fifteen years of estrangement from her racist great-aunt, helps bring her home when Alzheimer’s strikes. In 1970, three-day-old Marra B. Gad was adopted by a white Jewish family ...
Nov 12, 2019 · Marra B. Gad’s biological parents were a black man and a white Jewish woman. In 1970, at three days old, she was adopted by a white Jewish family in Chicago. For them, it was love at first sight—but the world was not ready for a family like theirs. In black spaces, Marra was considered “not black enough” and encountered antisemitism.
- Marra B. Gad