Three reason- The Color of Water- Lian Wolman

The memoir the Color of Water by James McBride is a good memoir because, it keeps the reader interested, there was conflict and it was definitely eventful.

The memoir was about identity, religion and race conflicting in an unusual way.The mother had a crazy background, she was originally Jewish but married a black man and eventually converted to christianity and became very involved in churches.  The mother in the memoir had a past that the children did not know about which made her children wonder especially because she was white and they were black. The children were trying to find out who they were at the same time that they were trying to figure out who their mother was. This created a bit of mystery about the mom that let the reader wonder throughout the book which kept the reader fascinated and made the memoir interesting.

The memoir was also about household with an outrageous number of kids which  made this memoir eventful. Since there were so many kids it was very hard for the mother to supply all of their needs. When ever she spent a little one on one time with any of them it was a big deal. She worked a lot of low paying jobs which made it hard to feed all of them and buy them new things. At one of her jobs they gave their workers a free meal so she would try to take as much food as she could and bring it home for her children, but even that was not enough to feed all of them. Since there were so many kids in a small house with a low family income it made the book very eventful.

This memoir was good because there were so many prominent issues in the world today. In the memoir, it also kept the reader interested, had mystery and was eventful.