The Roots That Clutch (1)

"The Roots That Clutch" tells the haunting true-story about how a
young woman discovered through her PhD research on T.S. Eliot
and Ezra Pound that her grandmother had had an affair with the
other great American Modernist, William Carlos Williams. She also
discovers that her father may be the biological child of Williams.
The story is told through the experiences of the author’s persona
Jane. Written as a Bildungsroman, the novel takes place at
universities and manuscript libraries in Europe and t...