Why read These Walls Between Us?

Book cover of These Walls Between Us: A Memoir of Friendship Across Race and Class

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From an author of the best-selling women's health classic Our Bodies, Ourselves comes a bracingly forthright memoir about a life-long friendship across racial and class divides. A white woman's necessary learning, and a Black woman's complex evolution, make These Walls Between Us a "tender, honest, cringeworthy and powerful read." (Debby…

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1 author picked These Walls Between Us as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Carolyn Lee Arnold

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I loved this book because it is hard for me to recognize my own privilege as a white woman, and Wendy Sanford helped me see it by being vulnerable and honest enough to see it in herself.

By showing the nuanced everyday actions she took and the attitudes she had to change to counteract her learned white privilege and show up for her African American friend, she gave me hope that I could do the same. Her insightful observations and gripping family scenes of class, race, and gender interactions made me see my own family and class dynamics more clearly.

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From Carolyn's 3 favorite reads in 2023.