Meet Author Melanie Hatter January 14, 2012

Melanie S. Hatter discusses and signs "The Color of My Soul," the 2011 winner of the Washington Writers' Publishing House prize for fiction.

Kira Franklin begins to question her own culture when she pursues a story on a local Cherokee community raising money to reclaim ancestral lands. The Harper family is part of a long line of Cherokee leaders, and their knowledge and devotion to retaining their history make Kira long for a sense of self. But the history she knows about her own family – that her father fought and died in Vietnam – gets turned on its head when her mother announces that her father is alive and very different from the person Kira had imagined.