"The Grace of Silence," a memoir by Michele Norris: Michele Norris, co-host of NPR's 'All Things Considered,' grew up being told to 'rise above' racial discrimination and keep her 'eye on the prize.' She didn't realize then that her African American parents were trying to do the same. In her memoir, 'The Grace of Silence,' Norris chases after a family secret revealed too late -- that her father had been shot by a police officer in Birmingham shortly after being discharged from the Navy after World War II. Learning of the incident years after her father's death and long after other family members' memories of the event had faded, Norris can only guess at how it must have haunted him for the rest of his life.
Sunday, September 19, 2010
"The Grace of Silence," a memoir by Michele Norris
"The Grace of Silence," a memoir by Michele Norris: Michele Norris, co-host of NPR's 'All Things Considered,' grew up being told to 'rise above' racial discrimination and keep her 'eye on the prize.' She didn't realize then that her African American parents were trying to do the same. In her memoir, 'The Grace of Silence,' Norris chases after a family secret revealed too late -- that her father had been shot by a police officer in Birmingham shortly after being discharged from the Navy after World War II. Learning of the incident years after her father's death and long after other family members' memories of the event had faded, Norris can only guess at how it must have haunted him for the rest of his life.
