Some of My Best Friends

<p>In this unusually honest book of essays and other writings Emily Bernard examines the complexities of interracial friendships: Latino and white black and Asian black and Jewish. In essays from such celebrated writers as Pam Houston Darryl Pickney Luis Rodriguez and Susan Straight among many others you'll meet a young Italian American college student who rooms with a sophisticated young black man who can trace his college-educated elders back several generations; a second-generation Korean American from the hood who is more comfortable with Latinos and blacks than with Korean kids who grew up in the suburbs; and a Jewish man who reflects on his friendship with a black opera singer. Though culturally and ethnically at odds perhaps they call each other friends; working together playing together opening their homes and hearts even when they have every reason not to.</p><p>Sometimes controversial sometimes funny but always thought-provoking <em>Some of My Best Friends</em> is a timely work on a subject that has yet to be fully explored.</p>