The Grace of Silence A Family Memoir Author:Michele Norris While exploring the hidden conversations on race unfolding throughout America, Michele Norris discovered that there were painful secrets within her own family that had been willfully withheld. These revelations--from her father's shooting by a Birmingham police officer to her maternal grandmother's job as an itinerant Aunt Jemima--inspired a bra... more »cing journey into her family's past, from her childhood home in Minneapolis to her ancestral roots in the Deep South.« less