Editor's note: Listen to the CNN podcast of this
piece: http://podcasts.cnn.net/cnn/services/podcasting/audio/specialprogramming/sp10502.mp3 Karen Spears Zacharias is author of A Silence of Mockingbirds: The
Memoir of a Murder (MacAdam / Cage, 2012) and is
on Twitter at @karenzach.
In the My World of Flops
piece on Rachel Dolezal's fascinatingly, poignantly, hilariously misguided
memoir, I wrote about how Dolezal casually mentions that because of her Dickensian upbringing as the abused and overworked progeny of scheming, racist parents she has no sense of humor.