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My Father's Hidden Life--A Story of Race and Family Secrets
Little, Brown
October 2007
On Sale: September 27, 2007
Featuring: Anatole Broyard; Bliss Broyard
528 pages
ISBN: 0316163503
EAN: 9780316163507
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir | Non-Fiction
Two months before he died of cancer, renowned literary
critic Anatole Broyard called his grown son and daughter to
his side, intending to reveal a secret he had kept all their
lives and most of his own: he was black. But even as he lay
dying, the truth was too difficult for him to share, and it
was his wife who told Bliss 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 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 candor and nuanced insight,
Broyard chronicles her evolution from sheltered WASP to a
woman of mixed race ancestry.
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