Transforming education for social justice, particularly racial justice, has constituted the core of my work as a teacher educator. So after having authored, co-authored, and edited almost twenty academic books toward that end, it came as a surprise to many that I turned to writing fiction, specifically the novel, "White Bread" (2015). Why and how did I do that? In this essay, I discuss three reasons I chose to write research as fiction: 1) to bring a suppressed history to life, 2) to illustrate the method and potential of critical family history, and 3) to prompt teachers to envision themselves as social justice change agents.