Every so often, a book comes along that makes us cry and makes us strong, that makes us want to hug our children and call our old friends. This is one of those rare books. On January 19, 2000, a fire raged through Seton Hall Universityβs freshman dormitory, killing three students and injuring 58 o
Kissing Outside the Lines: A True Story of Love and Race and Happily Ever After
β Scribed by Farr, Diane
- Book ID
- 108992709
- Publisher
- Seal Press
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 2 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781580052979
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Diane Farr--Numb3rs star, Loveline veteran, and FunnyorDie.com contributor--always took for granted that she could love anybody she chose. But when she, a white woman, fell in love with a Korean-American man, she quickly learned a tough lesson: When it comes to navigating the landscape of interracial love in America today . . . you're going to step on some landmines.
At turns introspective and outrageous, Kissing Outside the Lines is Farr's unapologetic--often hilarious--look at the complexities of interracial/ethnic/religious/what-have-you love, told through the lens of her own experience of dating, marrying, and creating a family with someone from a race and culture different from her own. Along the way, she exposes the many ways in which prejudice rears its ugly head--whether subtly or overtly--when you dare to love "outside the lines," and she shares the stories of other multiracial couples from different corners of...
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