By examining generations on both sides of her family-her passionate, rebellious Texan mom and her unapologetically racist, Delta-born dad- Newton manages to get at a deeper truth: Understanding our more troubling inheritances can be a transformational act. In Ancestor Trouble, Newton turns to ancestry websites, DNA data, court documents, and newspaper clippings to uncover uncomfortable and unexpected truths behind her American Southern lineage.
In her debut memoir, Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation, the essayist and critic Maud Newton combines personal narrative and cultural criticism to dig at the roots of her troubled family tree and parse the universal urge to explore our ancestral past.
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