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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