![]() ![]() The question is also complicated by a harmless but not insignificant deception by Newton, whose given name is Rebecca (possibly after her grandmother or her great-great-grandmother) but who years ago started blogging about her family under the pseudonym Maud (borrowed from her great-great-aunt Maude). ![]() ![]() Who am I? is the question troubling Maud Newton in her extraordinary and wide-ranging book, “Ancestor Trouble.” Because ancestors are trouble: locating them, understanding our connections to them, reconciling facts about them with myths we’ve been told, and reckoning with the impact of those distortions and deceits - all of which Newton seeks to do. ANCESTOR TROUBLE A Reckoning and a Reconciliation By Maud Newton ![]()
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