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A Mixed-Race Daughter and the Mother Who Gave Her Away
Viking
May 2006
Featuring: June Cross
320 pages
ISBN: 067088555X
EAN: 9780670885558
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
A powerful memoir about the complicated but ultimately
loving relationship between a black daughter and her white
mother Secret Daughter is a deftly drawn and
moving portrait of a childhood spent in two very different
worlds: one white, one black. In 1957, when June Cross was
four years old, she was sent by her white mother to live
with a black family in Atlantic City. Her mother, Norma, had
left June’s abusive father, a comic in the well-known black
vaudeville duo Stump and Stumpy, and gave June up when it
became clear that her dark-skinned, kinky-haired child could
no longer "pass." Within her adopted family, June struggled
with her identity as the black radicalism of the times
collided head on with her family’s more traditional ideals.
Summer vacations were spent with her mother, now in
Hollywood and married to F Troop TV actor Larry
Storch. For many years, Norma, afraid that Larry’s career
would suffer if anyone discovered the truth about her
illegitimate daughter, told friends and reporters that June
was adopted. Secret Daughter, which grew out of
Cross’s Emmy Award–winning documentary, traces this thorny
story with poignancy and skill. It is both a vivid snapshot
of race relations in America and an inspiring journey of
understanding between a mother and daughter.
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