Book ancestor trouble5/31/2023 ![]() She set out to research her genealogy-her grandfather’s marriages, the accused witch, her ancestors’ roles in slavery and other harms. Newton’s family inspired in her a desire to understand family patterns: what we are destined to replicate and what we can leave behind. 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. Maud Newton’s ancestors have 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 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) ![]()
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