I’m Down
by Mishna Wolff
B Wolff, M.
Mishna Wolff’s dad is so white, they marked him absent at ghost school. But all his friends, neighbors and girlfriends are black. Little Mishna, meanwhile, is too tough for the white kids at school and too corny for the black kids in her neighborhood. This funny and often astonishing memoir of her childhood attempts to establish credibility and develop a sense of self while straddling two diverse cultures is a great read for citizens of Obama’s America. - Autumn Winters
In the Sanctuary of Outcasts: a Memoir by Neil White
B White, N.
Neil White commits white collar crime – bank fraud. He tells his kids he is going to camp and checks into the minimum security federal prison at Carville, LA, which is also the only remaining leprosy colony in the United States. He adjusts to life as a prisoner and to sharing a cell with some unusual white collar criminals. But it is his contact, not encouraged, with some of the remaining patients that most affects him, and his friendship with a woman who has lived at Carville for more than 70 years that is the most moving part of this well-told story. - Carol Passmore
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