Maud Newton's ancestors have vexed and fascinated her since she was a girl. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, NPR, Time, Entertainment Weekly, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Esquire, Garden & Gun 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 wildly unconventional 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 observation" ( The Boston Globe).
a literary feat that simultaneously builds and excavates identity."- The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) Description "Extraordinary and wide-ranging.
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