One Drop Broyard

Bliss Broyard 'One Drop' and What It Means A new family memoir from the daughter of famed literary critic Anatole Broyard bears the subtitle My Father's Hidden Life A Story of Race and Family

In one way, he wasn't wrong at all. quotMy father truly believed,quot Bliss Broyard writes in quotOne Drop My Father's Hidden Life a Story of Race and Family Secrets,quot quotthat there wasn

And in quotOne Drop,quot Broyard explores the eternal parent-child dilemma -- love tempered by what remains unknowable. Anatole Broyard was a loved and loving father, writing tantalizingly in his memoir

Broyard wisely incorporates her discovery of her famous father's Black identity into a detailed family history spanning several centuries. Her refusal to take the easy ways open to her becomes her strength as her father's interpreter Broyard never denies her lived experience as white in an affluent Connecticut suburb, attending an exclusive private school.

One Drop. My Father's Hidden Life--A Story of Race and Family Secrets. Open the full-size image Loading. Contributors. By Bliss Broyard. Formats and Prices. On Sale Sep 27, 2007. Page Count 528 pages. Bliss Broyard is the author of the collection of stories, My Father, Dancing,

Bliss Broyard is the author of the bestselling story collection, My Father, Dancing, which was a New York Times Notable Book, and the award-winning memoir, One Drop My Father's Hidden Life-A Story of Race and Family Secrets, which was named a best book of the year by the Chicago Tribune and was a finalist for the Essence Literary Prize. Her stories and essays have been anthologized in It

In this acclaimed memoir, Bliss Broyard, daughter of the literary critic Anatole Broyard, examines her father's choice to hide his racial identity, and the impact of this revelation on her own life. Two months before he died, renowned literary critic Anatole Broyard called his grown son and daughter to his side to impart a secret he had kept all their lives and most of his own he was black.

Just finished reading Bliss Broyard's memoir about her father Anatole Broyard, One Drop A Daughter's Story of Race and Family Secrets New York Little, Brown amp Company, 2007. I discovered Broyard's book after reading her father's books Kafka was all the Rage and Intoxicated by my Illness a beautifully crafted book on disease and dying and

Personal Observations on Bliss Broyard's One Drop My Father's Hidden Life--A Story of Race and Family Secrets New York Little, Brown and Co., 2007 Let me say right off that we at Backintyme Publishing enjoyed the book and recommend it without reservation.

Broyard's secret life went on to inspire another novel of reinvention Philip Roth's THE HUMAN STAIN. Far from being shocked by the revelation, Bliss was thrilled ONE DROP is not only a compassionate family memoir but it also opens the discussion of race in the U.S. What does it mean to be