Finding Your Roots

How did you discover the novel? I was talking a lot to people about the fact that my mother intimated to me that that was African-American ancestry, and that her father was possibly Black, possibly Native American, she wasn't entirely sure. And someone gave me the book and said a lot of the things that you were talking about, a lot of the things that you... You know, there was a term for what you're describing in your family, and it was called passing. Mm-hm. And I went, "Huh?" (chuckles) And they said, "Read this book", and I read it. And even though I don't know the facts of this in my family, and maybe you do. But I had a sort of gut response to the material, that felt very powerful to me.