One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life—a Story of Race and Family Secrets

In ONE DROP: MY FATHER'S HIDDEN LIFE--A STORY OF RACE AND FAMILY SECRETS (Little, Brown and Co., $24.99), Bliss Broyard recounts her extraordinary journey to piece together her father's history--and her own newfound heritage. A month before his death, her father, Anatole Broyard, esteemed literary critic, essayist and editor for The New York Times Book Review, and his wife revealed to their adult children what their father had kept from them their entire lives: he was Black. The carefully crafted memoir reveals a story that touches on the history of intraracial relations.

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