Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation by Maud Newton (English) Hard

Description: Ancestor Trouble by Maud Newton Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description "Extraordinary and wide-ranging . . . a literary feat that simultaneously builds and excavates identity."—The New York Times Book Review (Editors Choice) Roxane Gays Audacious Book Club Pick • Finalist for the National Book Critics Circles 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 observation" (The Boston Globe). 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 & GunMaud Newtons ancestors have fascinated her since she was a girl. Her mothers father was said to have married thirteen times. Her mothers grandfather killed a man with a hay hook. Mental illness and religious fanaticism percolated Mauds maternal lines back to an ancestor accused of being a witch in Puritan-era Massachusetts.Newtons 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 genealogy—her grandfathers marriages, the accused witch, her ancestors roles in slavery and other harms. Her journey took her into the realms of genetics, epigenetics, and debates over intergenerational trauma. She mulled over modernitys dismissal of ancestors along with psychoanalytic and spiritual traditions that center them. Searching and inspiring, Ancestor Trouble is one writers attempt to use genealogy—a once-niche hobby that has grown into a multi-billion-dollar industry—to make peace with the secrets and contradictions of her familys past and face its reverberations in the present, and to argue for the transformational possibilities that reckoning with our ancestors offers all of us. Author Biography Maud Newton has written for The New York Times Magazine, Harpers, The New York Times Book Review, and Oxford American. She grew up in Miami and graduated from the University of Florida with degrees in English and law. Details ISBN 0812997921 ISBN-13 9780812997927 Title Ancestor Trouble Author Maud Newton Format Hardcover Year 2022 Pages 400 Publisher Random House USA Inc GE_Item_ID:134963128; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys

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