How well do you know the people who raised you? That’s a central question in a new book by Michele Norris, co-host of NPR’s All Things Considered. Norris talks to host Ben Kieffer about her book "The Grace of Silence" and how she found herself unexpectedly confronting hard truths about her own family’s racial history that had been left unsaid by her parents. From her grandmother’s work as an itinerant Aunt Jemima peddling pancake mix, to her father’s shooting by the Birmingham police within weeks of his discharge from service in World War II.
