The Girl in the Middle: Growing Up Between Black and White, Rich and Poor Granofsky Anais
The Girl in the Middle: Growing Up Between Black and White, Rich and Poor Granofsky Anais In this poignant and timely memoir--written with the searing power of Beautiful Struggle and Born a…
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The Girl in the Middle: Growing Up Between Black and White, Rich and Poor Granofsky Anais
In this poignant and timely memoir--written with the searing power of Beautiful Struggle and Born a Crime--Degrassi Junior High star Anais Granofsky contemplates the lingering impact of a childhood spent in two opposite and warring worlds.Though recognized around the world for her role as Lucy Hernandez on the hit show Degrassi, Anais Granofsky's true childhood story is largely unknown. Her mother, Jean, was one of 15 children from a poor Black Methodist family in Ohio directly descended from freed Randolph slaves. Growing up, Anais was caught between two vastly different worlds: her father, Stanley, came from a wealthy, prominent, white Jewish family in Toronto.
When Anais's parents met at Antioch College in the early 1970s and soon had their first child, they didn't anticipate being cut off by the wealthy Granofskys, or