Ace of Spades A Memoir

"When David Matthew's mother abandoned him as an infant, she left him with white skin and the rumor that he might be half Jewish. For the next twenty years, he remained torn between his actual life in the ghetto of 1980s Baltimore and the world of white privilege he imagined." "Forced to choose between black and white, he took what seemed to him the path of least resistance: he adopted the snarky persona of his well-to-do Jewish classmates, whose lives seemed so much easier than his own. And when his father moved them into a dilapidated house in the heart of the ghetto, Matthews's light skin was suddenly no longer an easy way out: it was a liability. Haunting his every misadventure, from cross burning to drug deals gone awry, was his helplessness to forget the mother he never knew."--BOOK JACKET.Matthews, David is the author of 'Ace of Spades A Memoir', published 2007 under ISBN 9780805081497 and ISBN 0805081496.