Review ancestor trouble5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() I think I’ve always been like this.”Īlong with exhumations concerning her earliest predecessors (dating back to a 17th-century Massachusetts witch), Newton delivers on the promised subtitular reckoning and reconciliation. Born in Dallas in 1971 (birth name Rebecca, Maud by choice) into a lone-star lineage that’s highly entertaining on the page, the author has stated, “I’m drawn to things that are disturbing, unfair, profane, or tragic in some way. Maud Newton, a fiery iconoclast among the first generation of lit bloggers in the early 2000s, expands her 2014 Harper’s cover story, “ America’s Ancestry Craze,” into Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation, an eclectic nonfiction debut that’s one part Wild West, one part dirty South, and one part Eastern philosophy, with a splash of communal realpolitik and New Age woo-woo thrown in.Īncestor Trouble may traffic in unironic uses of “spirituality” and “faith,” but Newton - a connoisseur of the literary world long used to sharing uncensored glimpses of herself - compels for the simplest of reasons: She is forthright and honest, a seeker. ![]()
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