The Hate Race

The Hate Race

By Maxine Beneba Clarke

Pages

272

Rating

4.31

Year

2016

AutobiographyRaceContemporaryMemoirBiographyAustralia

Description

'Against anything I had ever been told was possible, I was turning white. On the surface of my skin, a miracle was quietly brewing...'

Suburban Australia. Sweltering heat. Three bedroom blonde-brick. Family of five. Beat-up Ford Falcon. Vegemite on toast. Maxine Beneba Clarke's life is just like all the other Aussie kids on her street.

Except for this one, glaring, inescapably obvious thing.