On the next Fresh Air – Terry Gross speaks with James McBride, best known for his memoir The Color of Water, about being the son of an African American father and white mother. His latest novel, Deacon King Kong is set in 1969, in a Brooklyn housing project, like the one he grew up in.  Join us.

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(Photo: James McBride - Chia Messina/Courtesy of Riverhead)