“[Michele Norris] blends the story of her childhood — and her quest to fill in its gaps — with a wider view of Southern race relations immediately following World War II, a period often overshadowed by history’s focus on the Martin Luther King era of the 1960s. “What’s been more corrosive to the dialogue on race in America over the last half century or so,” Norris asks, “things said or unsaid?” Her struggle to answer that question becomes a powerful plea to readers to doggedly pursue their families’ story lines. She reminds us that speaking candidly about race in America starts not at the president’s teleprompter but at our own dinner tables.” — Lisa Bonos
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