'The Girl in the Yellow Poncho' memoir explores growing up biracial and abandoned
Kristal Brent Zook's white father abandoned her Black mother when Zook was an infant, and she writes about her struggles with identity and abandonment.
Host Celeste Headlee speaks with journalist and professor Kristal Brent Zook about her new memoir “The Girl in the Yellow Poncho.” Zook’s white father abandoned her Black mother when Zook was an infant, and she writes about her struggles with identity and abandonment.
The cover of “The Girl in the Yellow Poncho.” (Courtesy of Duke University Press)
Book excerpt: ‘The Girl in the Yellow Poncho’
By Kristal Brent Zook
Preface
There were interviews. Always interviews. Pen and notebook in hand, I rushed here and there, to appointments with television and film directors, producers, actors, athletes, and musical artists. As an entertainment and cultural reporter, I wrote features about Magic Johnson, Jamie Foxx, Jada Pinkett Smith,
