{"product_id":"9781647421670","title":"These Walls Between Us: A Memoir of Friendship Across Race and Class","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eSanford, Wendy\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eShe Writes Press\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e10\/5\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom an author of the best-selling women’s health classic \u003ci\u003eOur Bodies, Ourselves\u003c\/i\u003e\n comes a bracingly forthright memoir about a life-long friendship across\n racial and class divides. A white woman’s necessary learning, and a \nBlack 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nIn the mid-1950s, a fifteen-year-old African American teenager named \nMary White (now Mary Norman) traveled north from Virginia to work for \ntwelve-year-old Wendy Sanford’s family as a live-in domestic for their \nsummer vacation by a remote New England beach. Over the years, Wendy's \nfamily came to depend on Mary’s skilled service—and each summer, Mary \nendured the extreme loneliness of their elite white beachside retreat in\n order to support her family. As the Black “help” and the privileged \nwhite daughter, Mary and Wendy were not slated for friendship. But years\n later—each divorced, each a single parent, Mary now a rising officer in\n corrections and Wendy a feminist health activist—they began to walk the\n beach together after dark, talking about their children and their work,\n and a friendship began to grow.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nBased on decades’ worth of visits, phone calls, letters, and texts between Mary and Wendy, \u003ci\u003eThese Walls Between Us\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles\n the two women’s friendship, with a focus on what Wendy characterizes as\n her “oft-stumbling efforts, as a white woman, to see Mary more fully \nand to become a more dependable friend.” The book examines obstacles \ncreated by Wendy’s upbringing in a narrow, white, upper-class world; \nreveals realities of domestic service rarely acknowledged by white \nemployers; and draws on classic works by the African American writers \nwhose work informed and challenged Wendy along the way. Though Wendy is \nthe work’s primary author, Mary read and commented on every draft—and \ntogether, the two friends hope their story will incite and support white\n readers to become more informed and accountable friends across the \nracial divides created by white supremacy and to become active in the \nongoing movement for racial justice.","brand":"She Writes Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42975183110399,"sku":"9781647421670","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/9781647421670_s600x595.jpg?v=1776957327","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/de\/products\/9781647421670","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}