Ancestor Trouble : Random House Trade Paperbacks : 9780812987492 : 0812987497 : 20 Jun 2023 : ?Extraordinary and wide-ranging . . . a literary feat that simultaneously builds and excavates identity.??The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)   Roxane Gay's Audacious Book Club Pick ? Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize ? An acclaimed writer goes searching for the truth about her wildly unconventional 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). 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 vexed and fascinated her since she was a girl. Her mother's father, who came of age in Texas during the Great Depression, was said to have married thirteen times a