5/28/2023 0 Comments Ancestor trouble book review![]() ![]() In addition to her memoir, Maud Newton is an essayist, critic, and fiction writer. The New York Times has called Ancestor Trouble “a literary feat” that “simultaneously builds and excavates identity.” ![]() She begins with an investigation of her own family: a father who “extolled the virtues of slavery,” a grandfather who married at least 11 times, a great-grandfather who killed another man with a hay hook.īy the end of Ancestor Trouble, Newton has considered epigenetic studies, DNA-powered surveillance, intergenerational wealth, Renaissance-era inheritance myths, and spiritual practices that recognize ancestral ties. In her debut book, Ancestor Trouble, Maud Newton explores the nature of inheritance. Ancestor Trouble author Maud Newton / Photo by Maximus Clarke ![]()
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