I'm Down

I'm Down (2009) by Mishna Wolff. By turns funny and sad, this is the memoir of a girl (now a woman) who was raised in the ghetto by a father who thought he was black. The truth is, her father and mother were both white, and she is white, but she was raised in a black milieu. It's an extraordinary story, and one of the best books I've read this year. My only complaint: It ended too soon. Grade: A