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“Margaret Bolsterli has written a family history that tells as much about the nation and the place of race within it as it does about Bolsterli’s family. Perhaps the most surprising and breathtaking story concerns the branch of the family that changed its destiny by crossing the Mississippi River into Arkansas and re-inventing itself as white rather than black. This well-written and insightful narrative is a timely addition to the American drama.”
—Jeannie Whayne, author of Delta Empire and co-author of Arkansas: A Narrative History
“Only William Faulkner could have written a novel capturing the drama and haunting turns in life that Margaret Bolsterli details in her biography of Jordan Chavis, her free black great-great grandfather. This book is well-researched and a riveting read. Bolsterli’s eloquent questions about why she was not told about Jordan Chavis raise wrenching issues that resonate with other families who have been cut from their roots by silence.”
—Elizabeth Payne, editor of Mississippi Women
“This is a genre of family history as old as America but one that is almost never told out loud. Ms. Bolsterli discovered in her advancing years that she was not who she thought she was—a child of white privilege from the Arkansas delta. Kaleidoscope tells the story of a new identity that began long ago on a plantation in Mississippi, and it elucidates much about the cradle of so much of America’s racial confusion.”
—Roy Reed, author of Beware of Limbo Dancers
“Given the importance of the subject, the honesty with which it is told, and the quality of the prose, Kaleidoscope‘s value as a memoir about the South can hardly be overstated.”
—Arkansas Historical Quarterly, Autumn 2015
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