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David Matthews. David Matthews (born November 8, 1967) is an American author and screenwriter. Matthews is of African American and Jewish descent. His memoir Ace of Spades recounts growing up in the inner city of Baltimore, Maryland as a biracial child who could pass for white . Matthews' Jewish mother had schizophrenia and left his father when ...
Feb 6, 2007 · Ace of Spades: A Memoir. Hardcover – Deckle Edge, February 6, 2007. When David Matthews's mother abandoned him as an infant, she left him with white skin and the rumor that he might be half Jewish. For the next twenty years, he would be torn between his actual life as a black boy in the ghetto of 1980s Baltimore and a largely imagined world ...
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Feb 6, 2007 · A take-no-prisoners tale of growing up without knowing who you are. When David Matthews's mother abandoned him as an infant, she left him with white skin and the rumor that he might be half Jewish. For the next twenty years, he would be torn between his actual life as a black boy in the ghetto of 1980s Baltimore and a largely imagined world of ...
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Feb 6, 2007 · Ace of Spades. by David Matthews. Publication Date: February 6, 2007. Genres: Nonfiction. Hardcover: 320 pages. Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. ISBN-10: 0805081496. ISBN-13: 9780805081497. When David Matthews’s mother abandoned him as an infant, she left him with white skin and the rumor that he might be half Jewish.
After much difficulty, Matthews began to take his life more seriously, obtaining a GED and attending college. When he finally contacted his mother’s family, he learned she had died. His reminiscences include the obligatory sexual coming-of-age stuff, some of it sordid; he renders the almost equally obligatory drug-deal-gone-bad sequence in ...
Feb 6, 2007 · A take-no-prisoners tale of growing up without knowing who you are.When David Matthews's mother abandoned him as an infant, she left him with white skin and the rumor that he might be half Jewish. For the next twenty years, he would be torn between his actual life as a black boy...
Ace of Spades. A take-no-prisoners tale of growing up without knowing who you are. When David Matthews's mother abandoned him as an infant, she left him with white skin and the rumor that he might be half Jewish. For the next twenty years, he would be torn between his actual life as a black boy in the ghetto of 1980s Baltimore and a largely ...
