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Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation

byMaud Newton

Mental illness and religious fanaticism percolated Maud’s maternal lines back to an ancestor accused of being a witch in Puritan-era Massachusetts. The argument in Ancestor Trouble develops through biographical detail, personal testimony, and historical context, attending to both broad patterns and the revealing details that resist them. That perspective connects the reckoning and a reconciliation to larger questions in biography & autobiography and family & relationships, without losing sight of the people living through the consequences. Rather than reducing its subject to a single lesson, Ancestor Trouble preserves its contradictions and shows why they remain important.

Publisher

Random House Publishing Group

Publication date

2022

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9780812997927