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092			_aBLAKE, J. _bB636
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aBlake, John K., _d1964- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aMore than I imagined : _bwhat a Black man discovered about the White mother he never knew / _cJohn Blake.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bConvergent, _c[2023]
300			_a227 pages : _billustrations ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
505	0		_aPrologue: A Painful Return Home -- Who Can Cling to a Ramblin' Rose? -- Black Boy, White Boy -- Can I Get a Witness? -- The Patron Saint of Hopeless Causes -- And Love Comes Gushing Down -- An Unexpected Meeting -- Momma, Can You Dance? -- Talking to the Dead -- Rainbows Day After Day -- A Sign from Above.
520			_a"An award-winning journalist tells the story of his quest to reconcile with his white mother and the family he'd never met--and how faith brought them all together. John Blake grew up in a notorious Black neighborhood in inner-city Baltimore that was the setting for the HBO series The Wire. It was there that he became a self-described "closeted biracial person," hostile toward white people while hiding the truth of his mother's race. The son of a Black man and a white woman who met at a time when interracial marriage was still illegal, Blake knew this much about his mother: She vanished from his life not long after his birth, and her family rejected him because of his race. But at the age of seventeen, Blake had a surprise encounter that uncovered a disturbing family secret. This launched him on a quest to reconcile with his white family that centered on two questions: Where is my mother, and where do I belong? More Than I Imagined is Blake's propulsive true story about how he answered those questions--with the help of an interracial church, a loving caregiver's sacrifice, and an inexplicable childhood encounter that taught him the importance of forgiveness. Blake covered some of the biggest stories about race in America for twenty-five years before realizing that "facts don't change people, relationships do." He only discovered that after experiencing what he calls "radical integration." It was the only way forward for him and his family-and it's the only way forward for America as a multiracial democracy. More Than I Imagined is a hopeful story for our difficult times"-- _cProvided by publisher.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [221]-227).
600	1	0	_aBlake, John K., _d1964-
650		0	_aRacially mixed people _zMaryland _zBaltimore _vBiography.
650		0	_aRacially mixed people _zGeorgia _zAtlanta _vBiography.
650		0	_aJournalists _zGeorgia _zAtlanta _vBiography.
651		0	_aUnited States _xRace relations. _928230
651		0	_aBaltimore (Md.) _vBiography. _9158794
651		0	_aAtlanta (Ga.) _vBiography. _9113464
655		7	_aAutobiographies. _2lcgft _9728
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