Bibliograph

One drop, my father's hidden life--a story of race and family secrets, Bliss Broyard

Type

Label

One drop, my father's hidden life--a story of race and family secrets, Bliss Broyard

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [491]-498) and index

resource.biographical

autobiography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

One drop

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

85444109

Responsibility statement

Bliss Broyard

Sub title

my father's hidden life--a story of race and family secrets

Summary

Two months before he died of cancer, renowned literary critic Anatole Broyard called his grown son and daughter to his side, to reveal a secret he had kept all their lives and most of his own: he was black. His daughter Bliss learned that her WASPy, privileged Connecticut childhood had come at a price. Ever since his own parents, New Orleans Creoles, had moved to Brooklyn and began to "pass" in order to get work, Anatole had learned to conceal his racial identity. As he grew older and entered the ranks of the New York literary élite, he maintained the façade. Now Bliss tries to make sense of his choices and the impact of this revelation on her own life. She searches out the family she never knew in New York and New Orleans, and considers the profound consequences of racial identity.--From publisher description

Table Of Contents

Love at last sight -- Infinity of traces -- Avenues of flight

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