Showing One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life; A Story of Race and Family Secrets by Bliss Broyard

Paperback. Pub Date: September. 2008 Pages: 544 Publisher: Little withown Ever since RENOWNED literary critic Anatole oyard's own PARENTS New Orleans Creoles. Had moved to by ooklyn and Began to pass in order to get work he had Learned to conceal his racial identity. As he grew older and entered the ranks of the New York literary elite. he maintained the facade. Now his daughter 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. With unsparing candor and nuanced insight. oyard chronicles her evolution from sheltered WASP to a woman of mixed race ancestry.