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Winner of an Honorable Mention in the Writer's Digest 30th Annual Self-Published Book Awards. "A bold and rousing memoir of interracial love." ~ IndieReader "...At its heart, this is a beautiful love story." ~ Kirkus Reviews In a country that can't seem to close the divide between Black and white Americans, Dianne and Ronald's enduring love shows how. In the 1940s, Liuzzi Hagan's father, Frank, an Italian-American, met Ruth, an Australian of Irish descent, in Ryde, Australia, where he was stationed during World War II. They married and settled in Albany, New York, where Frank's family ...

"One of the best Black Lives Matter books of all time" - BookAuthority Dedicated to the mothers of the Black Lives Matter Movement, and set among the stories of unarmed black men, women, and children who were victims of excessive use of force and racial bias, Liuzzi Hagan’s memoir is a candid, emotionally intimate account of the devastating personal effects of politically motivated and systematized racism in America. She is white; her husband is black. They have mixed-race twin daughters. Their relationship spans over forty years. As both a witness to and a target of racial bias, her ...