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Reviewed by Jon Michael Miller for Readers' Favorite
The Color of Acceptance by Carol Siyahi Hicks is the compelling narrative of a young woman’s journey toward self-knowledge. It is also a time trip through the sixties and early seventies, and I felt Gabrielle’s hopes, her dreams, her successes and failures, and her eventual self-illumination. From her childhood on Long Island, New York, to her Ohio college years, her horrific experience on one of the early Freedom Rides, her first true love, her emergence as a formidable painter, and finally her search for her true identity, we watch her grow from a newborn baby into a fascinating woman who discovers not only who she is but who she loves.
This flawless and formidable novel was a moving read for me, difficult to put down, much because it is the story not only about Gabrielle, the protagonist but of my generation. I could relate to the places and the events. The opening chapter is composed of one of the most intriguing and thrilling “hooks” of any work of literature I have ever read. Once you read that chapter you won’t stop turning the pages. Then, you will want more. It’s because you are reading about a life, a search, and you want the best for Gabrielle as she is traumatically mistreated as an elementary student because she is not quite like the others. Something is different about her, but she does not know what or why. A powerful twist, however, is that the reader does not know why either, and I was turning the pages, waiting anxiously for her to discover the secret of her birth. How will she find out, and then what will she feel and do? The Color of Acceptance by Carol Siyahi Hicks is an exquisitely written novel not only about the acceptance of others but of oneself.
