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Skinfolk audiobook
- By: Matthew Pratt Guterl
- Narrator: George Newbern
- Category: Biography & Autobiography, Cultural Heritage
- Length: 9 hours 59 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2023
- Language: English
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Skinfolk Audiobook Summary
A haunting, poignant story of growing up in a mixed-race family in 1970s New Jersey, in the tradition of The Color of Water.
Magnanimous and charming, Bob Guterl knew that he could solve the racial problems bedeviling postwar America.
Determined to stave off impending global catastrophe, the larger-than-life judge and his resolute wife, Sheryl, launched a radical experiment, raising their two biological sons alongside four children adopted from Korea, Vietnam, and the South Bronx―the so-called “war zones of the American century”―in a white clapboard house with a white picket fence in small-town New Jersey.
In lyrical, often searing prose, Matthew Guterl, a renowned historian of race and their third-eldest child, recounts the ultimately troubling story of his family; his racially diverse siblings; and his idealistic parents, with their miragelike dreams of creating a racial utopia in an otherwise all-white community.
Chronicling the siblings’ coming-of-age in a recalcitrant, discriminatory society, Skinfolk peers behind that white picket fence, revealing many of the racial issues that continue to plague Americans today.
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Skinfolk Audiobook Narrator
George Newbern is the narrator of Skinfolk audiobook that was written by Matthew Pratt Guterl
Actor George Newbern has appeared in Father of the Bride, Father of the Bride II, Evening Star, Adventures in Babysitting, and many other films. On television, he has had roles on Friends, Nip/Tuck, Hot in Cleveland, CSI, and more. George is also known for providing the voice of Superman in Justice League.
About the Author(s) of Skinfolk
Matthew Pratt Guterl is the author of Skinfolk
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Skinfolk Full Details
| Narrator | George Newbern |
| Length | 9 hours 59 minutes |
| Author | Matthew Pratt Guterl |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Blackstone Publishing |
| Release date | May 06, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9798212385879 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Skinfolk is Blackstone Publishing. includes the following subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Cultural Heritage, Biography & Autobiography, General The BISAC Subject Code is Biography & Autobiography, Cultural Heritage
Additional info
The publisher of the Skinfolk is Blackstone Publishing. The imprint is Blackstone Publishing. It is supplied by Blackstone Publishing. The ISBN-13 is 9798212385879.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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