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Carla Rachel Sameth's Memoir In Essays "One Day On The Gold Line"

Book Cover - "One Day On The Gold Line"

Through meditations on race, culture, and family, "One Day on the Gold Line" tells the story of a lesbian Jewish single mother raising a black son in Los Angeles.

A memoir-in-essays, it examines life’s surprising changes that come through choice or circumstance, often seemingly out of nowhere, and sometimes darkly humorous even as the situations are dire.

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