The Color of Water
HOW does tateh try to get mameh to stay? Chapter 21
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As she waited for the bus, Tateh pulled up in his car and said that she should stay, because he needed her help with the store. Her mother, he said, needed her as well. Ruth refused, and they began to argue. In the end, Tateh told her that if she married a black man, she would never be welcome home again.