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Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation
By Maud Newton
Hardcover
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By Maud Newton
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Families can be problematic; ancestors can be a minefield. Maud Newton takes the plunge and wrestles with her own family’s complicated past and asks the question: Who are these people who came before us and what do they have to say about who we are?
“Extraordinary and wide-ranging . . . a literary feat that simultaneously builds and excavates identity.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)
Roxane Gay’s Audacious Book Club Pick • Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize • An acclaimed writer goes searching for the truth about her complicated Southern family—and finds that our obsession with ancestors opens up new ways of seeing ourselves—in this “brilliant mix of personal memoir and cultural observa...
Roxane Gay’s Audacious Book Club Pick • Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize • An acclaimed writer goes searching for the truth about her complicated Southern family—and finds that our obsession with ancestors opens up new ways of seeing ourselves—in this “brilliant mix of personal memoir and cultural observa...
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