The One Who Loves You
A Memoir of Growing Up Biracial in a Black and White World
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Narrateur(s):
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Santana Dempsey
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Auteur(s):
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Shannon Luders-Manuel
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“I’m still getting the brakes fixed and when that’s done I’m coming to see you, probably in a couple of weeks. As I keep fixing this and that the car will finally become reliable from bumper to bumper and I can visit any time and often. I’ll call before I come down and, remember I’m Robert Conrad ‘Martin Luther King’ Manuel. The one who loves you … ”
As a child, Shannon Luders-Manuel felt like an outsider in every environment she entered. Born to a Black father and white mother who separated when she was three, Luders-Manuel grew up with her white extended family, in largely white areas of California. Throughout her life, she yearned to understand her charismatic, transient father—whose promises were rarely kept, who struggled with alcohol and violence, and whose love she desperately needed. How could she find a place among two worlds—one white and one Black—when they felt so different?
Luders-Manuel sought guidance in Baptist religion, becoming a born-again Christian at age fourteen, and eventually found herself in an abusive relationship. When her father entered hospice care when she was just twenty-four, she became his caretaker despite their long estrangement and hoped to find connection while she still could. Instead, she learned that neither man nor God could give her the home she needed—she would have to build her own sense of self.
The One Who Loves You eloquently speaks not only to mixed-race individuals but to anyone who struggles with being labeled by others and to those who seek to reconcile the most contradictory parts of their own identities.
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Au global5 out of 5 stars
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- AJ
- 2025-02-26
Quest for belonging
This book explores the intricate difficulties of being bi-racial, and living in a mostly white world, as well as having parents who separated when she was young. Her father, "the one who loves you", promises her visits, money, support, and so much more. He could never fulfill his promises, but wrote her letters. Her mother, and grandmother, raised her in their white world where neighbours did not always accept her, due to racism.
Seeking a place to belong, Shannon became an evangelical Christian. She followed the rules, purity culture, waiting for a husband, and believing her role in life was as a wife and mother. She ended up in an abusive relationship, and later married the first man who proposed. This was no "happily ever after".
Having been raised in evangelicalism, I relate to the struggles of making big life decisions based on those principles we were taught. One doesn't necessarily get married because of attraction or love. It's more like a business transaction. The pain (physical and emotional) is so very real.
Shannon's quest for belonging brings her to being true to herself. To find a black community. To understand deeper meanings in her dad's letters. To her love and focus for writing.
The narration is clear, easy to listen to, and soothing. It definitely fits with the story of the book.
This memoir is beautifully written and read, and I'm glad I gave it a listen.
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