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

One Drop:  My Father's Hidden Life--A Story of Race and Family Secrets by Bliss Broyard is a 514-page hardcover published by Little, Brown and Company, 2007, stated first edition.  The dust jacket has light rubbing and shelf wear.  Apart from some bumping to the spine, the condition is near fine, with no evidence of use.  The condition is very good. Book Summary 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'd kept all their lives and most of his own:  he was black.  Born in the French Quarter in 1920, Anatole began to conceal his racial identity after the family moved from New Orleans to the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brookyln and his parents resorted to "passing" in order to get work.  From his bohemian days in the cafes of Greenwich Village in the 1940s to his ascension in the ranks of the literary elite, he continued to maintain the facade. Serving as a daily book c