{"product_id":"these-walls-between-us-a-memoir-of-friendship-across-race-and-class-paperback","title":"These Walls Between Us: A Memoir of Friendship Across Race and Class - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWendy Sanford\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom an author of the best-selling women's health classic \u003ci\u003eOur Bodies, Ourselves\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e comes a bracingly forthright memoir about a life-long friendship across\u003cbr\u003e racial and class divides. A white woman's necessary learning, and a \u003cbr\u003eBlack woman's complex evolution, make \u003ci\u003eThese Walls Between Us\u003c\/i\u003e a \"tender, honest, cringeworthy and powerful read.\" (Debby Irving, author, \u003ci\u003eWaking Up White\u003c\/i\u003e.)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the mid-1950s, a fifteen-year-old African American teenager named \u003cbr\u003eMary White (now Mary Norman) traveled north from Virginia to work for \u003cbr\u003etwelve-year-old Wendy Sanford's family as a live-in domestic for their \u003cbr\u003esummer vacation by a remote New England beach. Over the years, Wendy's \u003cbr\u003efamily came to depend on Mary's skilled service--and each summer, Mary \u003cbr\u003eendured the extreme loneliness of their elite white beachside retreat in\u003cbr\u003e order to support her family. As the Black \"help\" and the privileged \u003cbr\u003ewhite daughter, Mary and Wendy were not slated for friendship. But years\u003cbr\u003e later--each divorced, each a single parent, Mary now a rising officer in\u003cbr\u003e corrections and Wendy a feminist health activist--they began to walk the\u003cbr\u003e beach together after dark, talking about their children and their work, \u003cbr\u003e and a friendship began to grow. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBased on decades' worth of visits, phone calls, letters, and texts between Mary and Wendy, \u003ci\u003eThese Walls Between Us\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles\u003cbr\u003e the two women's friendship, with a focus on what Wendy characterizes as\u003cbr\u003e her \"oft-stumbling efforts, as a white woman, to see Mary more fully \u003cbr\u003eand to become a more dependable friend.\" The book examines obstacles \u003cbr\u003ecreated by Wendy's upbringing in a narrow, white, upper-class world; \u003cbr\u003ereveals realities of domestic service rarely acknowledged by white \u003cbr\u003eemployers; and draws on classic works by the African American writers \u003cbr\u003ewhose work informed and challenged Wendy along the way. Though Wendy is \u003cbr\u003ethe work's primary author, Mary read and commented on every draft--and \u003cbr\u003etogether, the two friends hope their story will incite and support white\u003cbr\u003e readers to become more informed and accountable friends across the \u003cbr\u003eracial divides created by white supremacy and to become active in the \u003cbr\u003eongoing movement for racial justice. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 328\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.98 x 5.51 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 05, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46564535173305,"sku":"9781647421670","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/thoobo.com\/products\/these-walls-between-us-a-memoir-of-friendship-across-race-and-class-paperback","provider":"Thoobo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}