Black Sheep Ray Ben Studevent by Ray "ben" Studevent 9780757323812, 9780757323829, 0757323812, 0757323820 instant download after payment.

A captivating memoir of a biracial boy growing up in Washington, D.C., abandoned by his birth parents, and lovingly raised by a woman with deep emotional scars from her upbringing in the segregated South.
The unforgettable memoir Black Sheep opens with a middle-aged Ray Studevent returning to Washington, D.C., to his "momma," Lemell Studevent. She didn't give birth to him, but she is the woman who raised him. She is the woman who stood by him through thick and thin. She is the woman who saved his life. But now in her late 80s, Lemell is lost to her Alzheimer's disease. On most days, she has no idea who she is, no recollection of the remarkable life she has lived. Every once in a while, she remembers small fragments of people, places, and things but she doesn't know how all of these pieces fit together. At night, she is often haunted by nightmares of growing up in the segregated South, of evil men with blue eyes peering through slits in their hooded robes. Frightened by...