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 .... more
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’ve tried to describe what it was like growing up white, wealthy and privileged and also the victim of child abuse,” Connor said. “Even more complicated was explaining the deep love I experienced from the Black woman who was 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.