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The 'fascinating and insightful book' (New York Times) in which Bliss Broyard examines her celebrated father's life and illuminates questions of race, identity and the American dream.

This probing and often poignant account of a daughter's search for perspective on her father's life and those it touched has so much to reveal about race in America Informationen zum Autor Bliss Broyard is the author of the collection of stories, My Father, Dancing, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the year. Her fiction and essays have been anthologized in Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize Anthology and The Art of the Essay, and have appeared in Grand Street, Ploughshares, the New York Times, Elle magazine, and elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter. Klappentext A father's stunning secret sparks a life-transforming journey in this story of race, identity, and the American dream. Broyard tries to make sense of her father's choices and the impact of his revelation on her own life. The 'fascinating and insightful book' (New York Times) in which Bliss Broyard examines her celebrated father's life and illuminates questions of race, identity and the American dream. Ever since renowned literary critic Anatole Broyard's own parents, New Orleans Creoles, had moved to Brooklyn 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 façade. 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 candour and nuanced insight, Broyard chronicles her evolution from sheltered WASP to a woman of mixed race ancestry.

Vorwort
The 'fascinating and insightful book' (New York Times) in which Bliss Broyard examines her celebrated father's life and illuminates questions of race, identity and the American dream.

Autorentext

Bliss Broyard is the author of the collection of stories, My Father, Dancing, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the year. Her fiction and essays have been anthologized in Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize Anthology and The Art of the Essay, and have appeared in Grand Street, Ploughshares, the New York Times, Elle magazine, and elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter.

Klappentext

A father's stunning secret sparks a life-transforming journey in this story of race, identity, and the American dream. Broyard tries to make sense of her father's choices and the impact of his revelation on her own life.

Zusammenfassung

Ever since renowned literary critic Anatole Broyard's own parents, New Orleans Creoles, had moved to Brooklyn 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 façade.
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 candour and nuanced insight, Broyard chronicles her evolution from sheltered WASP to a woman of mixed race ancestry.