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Roxane Gayās Audacious Book Club Pick ā¢ Finalist for the National Book Critics Circleās John Leonard Prize ā¢ An acclaimed writer goes searching for the truth about her complicated Southern familyāand finds that our obsession with ancestors opens up new ways of seeing ourselvesāin this ābrilliant mix of personal memoir and cultural observationā (The Boston Globe).
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Maud Newtonās ancestors have fascinated her since she was a girl. Her motherās father was said to have married thirteen times. Her motherās grandfather killed a man with a hay hook. Mental illness and religious fanaticism percolated Maudās maternal lines back to an ancestor accused of being a witch in Puritan-era Massachusetts.
Newtonās family inspired in her a desire to understand family patterns: what we are destined to replicate and what we can leave behind. She set out to research her genealogyāher grandfatherās marriages, the accused witch, her ancestorsā roles in slavery and other harms. Her journey took her into the realms of genetics, epigenetics, and debates over intergenerational trauma. She mulled over modernityās dismissal of ancestors along with psychoanalytic and spiritual traditions that center them.Ā
Searching and inspiring, Ancestor Trouble is one writerās attempt to use genealogyāa once-niche hobby that has grown into a multi-billion-dollar industryāto make peace with the secrets and contradictions of her family's past and face its reverberations in the present, and to argue for the transformational possibilities that reckoning with our ancestors offers all of us.
This book title, Ancestor Trouble (A Reckoning and a Reconciliation) - 9780812987492, ISBN: 9780812987492, by Maud Newton, published by Random House Publishing Group (June 20, 2023) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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