Imagine living life as one person, and then being told you aren’t exactly who you think you are. That’s what Bliss Broyard endured, and she discusses the experience and her book One Drop: My Father’s Hidden Life—A Story of Race and Family Secrets with WNYC’s Brian Lehrer. Before he passed away from cancer, the author’s father, Anatole, revealed to his children of his true racial identity, that he is black. (Anatole Broyard, as many may know, was a book critic at the New York Times and a columnist at the New York Times Book Review.) In the book Broyard writes about what came after her relevation, and “chronicles her own evolution from privileged WASP to a woman of mixed-race ancestry.”

You can listen to the interview above, and read a chapter of the book here.