Todd Connor

Todd Connor’s autobiographical novel reveals the shocking truth of his childhood—a story he held private until now.

Connor is a corporate CEO in the San Francisco Bay Area where he grew up and where this story takes place. Married with two grown children, he is involved in non-profits focused on the reconciliation of Blacks and whites, and serves as a part-time pastor at his church.

“For years, I tried to describe what it was like to be the victim of child abuse,” Connor said. “Even more complicated was explaining the deep love I experienced from the Black woman who was our the family maid. Others found it hard to understand the extreme contrasts of love and hatred coexisting in my early life. I knew I needed to bring people into that drama, to feel what my siblings and I felt as small children growing up with a psychotic mother, an uncaring father, and a loving Black woman who exuded God-like love and bravery during the 1960s while she, and her race, were simultaneously being abused by American society.”