One Day on the Gold Line: A Memoir in Essays

By Carla Rachel Sameth

Book Overview

Award-winning author Carla Sameth leverages her unique identity-a Jewish queer single mother of a biracial (Black and Jewish) son--to build a memoir in linked essays that is brave, heartwarming, incisive, and riveting. Her overarching dream of being a good mother and creating a perfect family takes her on adventures and misadventures that challenge her convictions as she navigates a life defined by circumstance and choices she can't always control. Life's vicissitudes--countless miscarriages, unblended family, the hurtfulness of racism and prejudice, economic hardships, her teenage son's struggle with drugs, social injustice as experienced firsthand by her and her son--test her dreams and her resolve to prevail. Sameth has us cheering in her corner as we swing from crisis to crisis with her, sometimes finding dark humor in situations, but always finding unflagging, unconditional love and devotion in her story.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1737248115
• ISBN13: 9781737248118
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Golden Foothills Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"