White Boy: A Memoir

by Tom Graves

White A Memoir is one man's unvarnished story of love, loss, race, Memphis, and a dark past. Everything is laid bare when Memphis author, journalist, and college professor Tom Graves takes a vivid and deep introspective account of his life.

Certainly no one can accuse Graves of looking back through rose-colored glasses, as chapter after riveting chapter, he confronts his family's racist past, shares his eyewitness memories of the integration of Memphis public schools, details his dating escapades with women from another race, and brings you to tears with his powerful account of the roller-coaster relationship with a Sierra Leone native whom he met on Match.com and brought to the US to become his bride.

This courageous and unforgettable memoir is sure to stir, and perhaps even prompt you to reconsider, your own feelings about love and race.

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Published July 12, 2019

Reviews

[Nick Canterucci · Rating 5 out of 5]

Growing up in the mid south of the early 60's, was certainly an train wreck at times..and Tom Graves latest book, helps expose some of the social rancor, that Graves and many others had to deal with over the past 50 plus years..Granted, it was an dangerous and at times, exciting period, as the leave it to beaver, Amos & andy 1950's, was coming to an close..White boy is an honest reflection of that trouble period in the south..which has tendered to spill over and define how race relations have evolved right now in 2019..Graves is the conductor, and white boy, is the train the reader is traveling on..an honest piece of journalism...

[Jamie Zanone Allen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Introspection is never a bad thing.