Complex sentence: McBride depicts the conflicting emotions that he endured as he struggled to discover who he truly was, as his mother narrates the hardships that she had to overcome as a white, Jewish woman who chose to marry a black man in 1942.
Split into simpler sentences: McBride depicts the conflicting emotions that he endured as he struggled to discover who he truly was. His mother narrates the hardships that she had to overcome as a white, Jewish woman who chose to marry a black man in 1942.