Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation Newton Maud
Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation Newton Maud An acclaimed writer goes searching for the truth about her wildly unconventional Southern family--and finds that our obsession with…
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Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation Newton Maud
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.Maud Newton's ancestors have vexed and fascinated her since she was a girl. Her mother's grandfather killed a man with a hay hook and died in a mental institution. Her mother's father, who came of age in Texas during the Great Depression, was said to have married thirteen times and been shot by one of his wives.
Maud's father, an aerospace engineer turned lawyer, was a book-smart man who extolled the virtues of slavery and obsessed over the purity of his family bloodline, which he traced back to the Revolutionary War. Mental illness and religious fanaticism percolated through Maud's maternal lines, to an ancestor accused of being a witch in Puritan-era Massachusetts. He tried in vain to
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