![]() ![]() Mental illness and religious fanaticism percolated Maud’s maternal lines back to an ancestor accused of being a witch in Puritan-era Massachusetts. Her mother’s grandfather killed a man with a hay hook. Her mother’s father was said to have married thirteen times. 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 Maud Newton’s ancestors have fascinated her since she was a girl. 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).Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize.a literary feat that simultaneously builds and excavates identity.”-The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) Roxane Gay’s Audacious Book Club Pick ![]()
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