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By Maud Newton

Narrated by: Catherine Taber

Unabridged — 11 hours, 14 minutes

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Listen to Maud Newton in conversation about Ancestor Trouble on Poured Over: The B&N Podcast

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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?

An acclaimed writer goes searching for the truth about her wildly unconventional Southern family-and finds that our obsession with ancestors opens up new ways of seeing ourselves.

“A roadmap for all of us who long to understand, at the deepest level, where we come from.”-Dani Shapiro, author of Inheritance

ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022-Oprah Daily, Time, Esquire, The Millions, The Week, Thrillist, She Reads, Lit Hub, BookPage

Maud Newton's ancestors have vexed and fascinated her si...