The Color of Family Fiction & related items notes and index

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and some storms defy any preparation

he is led deeper into his memories

Recipes run the gamut from uncomplicated roast chicken and Citrus-Herb Rice Salad to dinner party–worthy Grilled Pork Tenderloin with Tandoori Spices

Harper works in her mom’s wedding shop

The Color of Family Fiction & related items notes and indexA uniquely blended personal family history and history of the changing definitions of race in America. A zealous eugenicist ran Virginia's Bureau of Vital Statistics in the first half of the twentieth century, misusing his position to reclassify people he suspected of hiding their "true" race. But in addition to being blinded by his prejudices, he and his predecessors were operating more by instinct than by science. Their whole dubious enterprise was