編輯推薦:The title story in My Father, Dancing, Bliss Broyard's debut collection was a blatantly transparent tribute to her dying dad, famed New York Times book critic Anatole Broyard. In her memoir One Drop, she reveals the long-held family secret that she learned as he lay on his deathbed: "Your father's part black." This sudden revision of her ethnicity at first seemed a small matter, but eventually the news caused her to revisit her father's whole life and even search out the darker-skinned family members she never. Bliss's memoir approaches racial identity in an unexpected way, reminding us of issues that all too many of us think that we have left behind.
內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介: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 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, Broyard chronicles her evolution from sheltered WASP to a woman of mixed race ancestry.
作者簡(jiǎn)介: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.