Kristal Brent Zook is the author of "The Girl in the Yellow Poncho." (Courtesy of Kristal Brent Zook) Host Celeste Headlee speaks with journalist and professor Kristal Brent Zook about her new ...

Adapted from “The Girl in the Yellow Poncho.” We were at the food truck at Bancroft Junior High, where kids smoked cigarettes between classes. Steven Adler, who played drums, was flirting with ...

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 ...

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 ...

Click here to read a book excerpt.. We revisit Celeste Headlee's conversation with journalist and professor Kristal Brent Zook about her memoir "The Girl in the Yellow Poncho" from September 2023 ...

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.