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<description><![CDATA[My latest newsletter is on Boy Erased author Garrard Conley's first novel, All the World Beside, a singular and magnificent work of art: tender, hopeful, shot through with dour fundamentalist judgment and a painful sense of separation, but also numinous and earthly connection. Also considered: the sins of the fathers, Puritan ancestors, epigenetics, queer kinship, and the musicality of his prose.
The post <a href="https://maudnewton.com/2024/03/art-kinship-garrard-conleys-all-the-world-beside/">Art & Kinship: Garrard Conley’s All the World Beside</a> appeared first on <a href="https://maudnewton.com">Maud Newton</a>.
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My <a href="https://ancestortrouble.substack.com/p/art-and-kinship-with-garrard-conley">latest newsletter</a> is on <a href="https://garrardconley.com/boy-erased">Boy Erased</a> author <a href="https://www.facebook.com/garrardc?__cft__[0]=AZX-57r338ypZlTK2_soibhpgHilgTdYgHG3WUFu78zQa4LbQMl7iq5g4nZcpqRkDDxOWaQcs4KetFg7ceSu1QPHuE_9JbFv7lpwSNVbsjZ-KFDPUf8rHiVc6JhPaHIXROrVOuDF7gbmszjpSCeSZjjN8rm3-LmGCXWNI1EoUmYQSWZbgr_8HdnZMDiOS1pgnyk&__tn__=-]K-R">Garrard Conley</a>‘s first novel, <a href="https://garrardconley.com/work#/atwb/">All the World Beside</a>, a singular and magnificent work of art: tender, hopeful, shot through with dour fundamentalist judgment and a painful sense of separation, but also numinous and earthly connection. Also considered: the sins of the fathers, Puritan ancestors, epigenetics, queer kinship, and the musicality of his prose.
The image above shows Garrard Conley & me at the Boy Erased launch in Brooklyn, at Book Court (RIP), 2016.
The post <a href="https://maudnewton.com/2024/03/art-kinship-garrard-conleys-all-the-world-beside/">Art & Kinship: Garrard Conley’s All the World Beside</a> appeared first on <a href="https://maudnewton.com">Maud Newton</a>.
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<description><![CDATA[The first subject of my new Art & Kinship series is Emily Raboteau, whose work I've been reading with admiration for almost two decades. Her new book—Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against "The Apocalypse"—is out today. In my latest newsletter, some thoughts on her work broadly and this book in particular, along with photos of Emily and her ancestor wall, and her reflections on creating this memorial to them after the passing of her dad as she wrote.
The post <a href="https://maudnewton.com/2024/03/art-kinship-emily-raboteaus-lessons-for-survival/">Art & Kinship: Emily Raboteau’s Lessons For Survival</a> appeared first on <a href="https://maudnewton.com">Maud Newton</a>.
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As promised, if a little late: the first subject of my <a href="https://ancestortrouble.substack.com/p/art-and-kinship-emily-raboteaus-lessons">new Art & Kinship series</a> is Emily Raboteau, whose work I’ve been reading with admiration for almost two decades. Her new book—<a href="https://www.emilyraboteau.net/lessons-for-survival">Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against “The Apocalypse”</a>—is out today. In my latest newsletter, some thoughts on her work broadly and this book in particular, along with photos of Emily and her ancestor wall, and her reflections on creating this memorial to them after the passing of her dad as she wrote.
This series is part of my free newsletter, where I usually post links and riffs on ancestor trouble, broadly construed, along with newsy updates, every month or so. These dispatches will continue, with the Art & Kinship series interspersed between them. That’s the plan, anyhow. Here’s <a href="https://ancestortrouble.substack.com/p/art-and-kinship-emily-raboteaus-lessons">the preamble</a>:
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Emotional recurrences in families have fascinated me as long as I can remember. As I explain in <a href="https://maudnewton.com/book/ancestor-trouble/">Ancestor Trouble</a>, “the more I feed my fixations, the sooner they tend to wither, but this one tends to permeate my perception of humanity. I often think family patterns are the primary existential conundrum we all have in common, apart from death and basic needs like food and shelter—but, then, questions of sustenance and longevity are intensely tangled up with our ancestors, too.” Nothing energizes me more than pondering the layered, wide-ranging implications of kinship and how family echoes bubble up in uncanny synchronicities and some of the most deeply resonant art. It’s in that spirit that I’m returning to my earliest online impulses, writing once a month or so about writers and their books as they (in my mind, at least) connect to these preoccupations.
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The post <a href="https://maudnewton.com/2024/03/art-kinship-emily-raboteaus-lessons-for-survival/">Art & Kinship: Emily Raboteau’s Lessons For Survival</a> appeared first on <a href="https://maudnewton.com">Maud Newton</a>.
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<description><![CDATA[I'll be speaking with Idra Novey for the paperback launch of her exemplary novel, Take What You Need, on March 14, at the Barnes & Noble on Atlantic. I've read it three times and now I have a reason to read it again.
The post <a href="https://maudnewton.com/2024/03/a-conversation-with-idra-novey/">A Conversation With Idra Novey</a> appeared first on <a href="https://maudnewton.com">Maud Newton</a>.
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Idra Novey’s <a href="https://www.idranovey.com/books/take-what-you-need">Take What You Need</a> is an exemplary novel, one of my favorites of recent years, as subscribers to my <a href="https://ancestortrouble.substack.com/p/family-stories-we-tell-ourselves">newsletter may recall</a>. I’ve read the book three times and I’m looking forward to reading it again before <a href="https://stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/9780062165565-0">talking with the author</a> about her tremendous accomplishment here, and her writing and work more broadly, in person on March 14, at 6:30, at <a href="https://www.instagram.com/bnatlanticave/">B&N Atlantic Ave</a>. We’d love to see you there.
The post <a href="https://maudnewton.com/2024/03/a-conversation-with-idra-novey/">A Conversation With Idra Novey</a> appeared first on <a href="https://maudnewton.com">Maud Newton</a>.
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<pubDate>Sun, 04 Feb 2024 03:08:36 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[I'm teaching a creative writing workshop—Family Stories We (Tell Ourselves We) Can't Tell—for the Miami Book Fair, as part of the festivities around the 2024 Miami Big Read featuring Madeline Miller's Circe. We'll gather in person at the Miami-Dade Wolfson campus. The workshop is priced for accessibility and size-limited for intimacy. For more details, or to register, go to the Miami Book Fair site.
The post <a href="https://maudnewton.com/2024/02/family-stories-we-tell-ourselves-we-cant-tell/">Family stories we “can’t tell”</a> appeared first on <a href="https://maudnewton.com">Maud Newton</a>.
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I’m teaching a creative writing workshop—<a href="https://www.miamibookfair.com/event/creative-writing-workshop-family-stories-we-tell-ourselves-we-cant-tell-with-maud-newton/">Family Stories We (Tell Ourselves We) Can’t Tell</a>—for the Miami Book Fair, as part of the festivities around the 2024 Miami Big Read featuring Madeline Miller’s Circe. We’ll gather in person at the Miami-Dade Wolfson campus on the afternoon of March 16. The workshop is priced for accessibility and size-limited for intimacy. One scholarship is available. For more details, or to register, go to the <a href="https://www.miamibookfair.com/event/creative-writing-workshop-family-stories-we-tell-ourselves-we-cant-tell-with-maud-newton/">Miami Book Fair site</a>.
The post <a href="https://maudnewton.com/2024/02/family-stories-we-tell-ourselves-we-cant-tell/">Family stories we “can’t tell”</a> appeared first on <a href="https://maudnewton.com">Maud Newton</a>.
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<pubDate>Sun, 04 Feb 2024 02:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[My latest newsletter is about my upcoming class in Miami and much more, including some of what I'm reading and thinking about these days.
The post <a href="https://maudnewton.com/2024/02/some-of-what-im-doing-reading-thinking-about/">Some of what I’m doing, reading, thinking about</a> appeared first on <a href="https://maudnewton.com">Maud Newton</a>.
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In the past, I’ve only posted links to my <a href="https://ancestortrouble.substack.com/">Ancestor Trouble newsletters</a> here under special circumstances, but going forward I’ll be mentioning them, because I’m often asked what I’ve been reading and thinking about, and while my newsletter is far from a comprehensive summary, it’s the best I’ve got that I’m able to share, particularly given that I have been <a href="https://maudnewton.com/2022/11/you-can-have-your-blue-check-back/">taking a Twitter (X) break since November 2022</a> and increasingly cannot be found on social media. Here’s the beginning of my latest dispatch:
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I’m experimenting with not explaining myself after an absence. So: I’m back! I’ve got a one-day afternoon workshop coming up from the <a href="https://www.miamibookfair.com/">Miami Book Fair</a> for the Miami Big Read this spring: <a href="https://www.miamibookfair.com/event/creative-writing-workshop-family-stories-we-tell-ourselves-we-cant-tell-with-maud-newton/">Family Stories We (Tell Ourselves We) Can’t Tell</a>. I taught the subject in my extended Writing About Ancestor Trouble <a href="https://maudnewton.com/classes/">class</a>, and I’m looking forward to offering this small stand-alone event, which will be held in Miami on March 16 from 1-3 pm, is limited to 15 students, and is priced at $30, for affordability.<a href="https://ancestortrouble.substack.com/p/family-stories-we-tell-ourselves#footnote-1-141139787">1</a> You can register on <a href="https://www.miamibookfair.com/event/creative-writing-workshop-family-stories-we-tell-ourselves-we-cant-tell-with-maud-newton/">the Book Fair site</a>.
The Miami Big Read pick this year is Madeline Miller’s epic and propulsive yet intimate second novel, <a href="https://madelinemiller.com/the-song-of-achilles/">Circe</a>, with its themes of family and finding your voice and magic in the aftermath of trauma and amid estrangement when your parents are actual gods. Teaching the class is especially exciting because I grew up in the 305 and because I had the honor of interviewing Madeline at the launch of her gut-wrenching first novel, <a href="https://madelinemiller.com/the-song-of-achilles/">The Song of Achilles</a>, at McNally Jackson all the way back in 2012. So the class will be a homecoming and an honor for me. I’ve got more stuff in the works; timing depends on my writing deadlines and other commitments.
After some reflection on what I’m doing here in this newsletter and what I’d like to be doing more of, I’m aiming send it twice monthly. One dispatch will be this freeform kind you’ve been used to, and the other will be a new Art and Kinship series around an author or other artist, their body of work, and how their biological, adoptive, or imaginative ancestors, or other understandings of kinship, influence their art. Sometimes I’ll talk with the authors, sometimes not. First up: <a href="https://www.emilyraboteau.net/">Emily Raboteau</a>, followed by <a href="https://garrardconley.com/biography">Garrard Conley</a>. Both have new books I loved coming out next month.
If you’re wondering: keeping this newsletter free is part of the way I keep engaging with the concerns I wrote about in Ancestor Trouble, and connecting with people who are earnestly grappling with those questions. At the moment I don’t have plans to introduce a paywall.
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Also discussed: Idra Novey’s superb Take What You need. Lucille Clifton’s slim, perfect memoir Generations, her poem of the same name, and Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’ upcoming biography of Clifton. The mystery and philosophy and epigenetics of twinship; Abbott Kahler’s Where You End; Helena de Bres’ How to Be Multiple, and Anne Hellman’s praise for it; Tim Spector’s Identically Different; Erika Hayasaki story in Elle on twin sisters born in Korea and separated as infants who both are fashion designers. Isotopes, ancestors, and spirit; Sebene Selasse’s Ancestors to Elements; Matthew Cheney’s “The Rats in the Walls”; how pagan practices endured into Christianity in Rome; Hannah Oliver Depp’s reading recommendation for Joe Biden; Matthew McNaught’s Immanuel. Yahdon Israel and Garrett Bucks’ The Right Kind of White. Hannah Moushabeck’s children’s book, Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine; Zaina Arafat’s recommendation of The Lemon Tree; Joy Harjo on M. Scott Momaday; Lauren LeBlanc’s praise for Temim Fruchter’s City of Laughter; Shannon Gibney’s The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be: A Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption; Mark Twain’s witchhunter uncle in Ireland; Susan Maddux’s textile workshop; Latria Graham speaking with Crystal Wilkinson about Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts. And more, including Rufus and his ball, pictured above in a photo by Max.
The post <a href="https://maudnewton.com/2024/02/some-of-what-im-doing-reading-thinking-about/">Some of what I’m doing, reading, thinking about</a> appeared first on <a href="https://maudnewton.com">Maud Newton</a>.
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2024 19:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Maud Newton will speak with Abbott Kahler tonight, January 16, at 6 PM, about Kahler's widely recommended first novel WHERE YOU END.
The post <a href="https://maudnewton.com/2024/01/mirror-twins-and-70s-cults-with-abbott-kahler/">Mirror Twins and 70s Cults with Abbott Kahler</a> appeared first on <a href="https://maudnewton.com">Maud Newton</a>.
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Today is publication day for <a href="https://substack.com/profile/12489666-abbott-kahler">Abbott Kahler</a>’s deliciously suspenseful and widely recommended first novel, WHERE YOU END! I’ll be talking with her at <a href="https://www.mysteriousbookshop.com/">The Mysterious Bookshop</a> in Manhattan tonight at 6 PM, if you need an antidote for gray January doldrums and the-world-is-falling-apart malaise, and honestly, who doesn’t?? We’ll be talking about so many things, including gross cults and the 70s and mirror twins and unexpected ancestry discoveries, and knowing the two of us when we get together we’ll probably tell some slightly inappropriate stories!
Hope to see you. Most importantly, I hope you’ll pick up the book.
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<title>A Conversation with Sunny A. Smith at Fort Mason</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2023 06:55:43 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Bay Area friends—I'm delighted to be in conversation with Sunny A. Smith at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco this Saturday for the celebration of their The Compass Rose catalog, which memorializes their striking show about ancestors and objects and legacies passed down. We spoke together for the catalog itself, and I'm eager to continue the conversation in person. Join us if you'd like. 🍂✨
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Bay Area friends—I’m delighted to be in conversation with Sunny A. Smith at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco this Saturday for the <a href="https://fortmason.org/event/sunny-a-smith-the-compass-rose-catalog-launch/">celebration of their The Compass Rose catalog</a>, which memorializes their striking show about ancestors and objects and legacies passed down. We spoke together for the catalog itself, and I’m eager to continue the conversation in person. Join us if you’d like. <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/15.0.3/72x72/1f342.png" alt="🍂" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /><img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/15.0.3/72x72/2728.png" alt="✨" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" />
Image above from the <a href="https://www.instagram.com/fortmasoncenter/">@fortmasoncenter</a> Instagram feed, where this invitation appeared: 
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YOU’RE INVITED – This Saturday, December 2nd, please join <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/fortmasoncenter/">#fortmasoncenter</a> for a catalog launch and conversation tracing the histories and ideas animating artist Sunny A. Smith’s exhibition, The Compass Rose. On view in <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/gallery308/">#gallery308</a> earlier this year, The Compass Rose invited viewers to contemplate what our ancestors pass on to us when they leave behind possessions, and how those objects serve as a means of communication, reckoning, or generational healing. Smith is joined in conversation by Maud Newton, catalog contributor and author of the acclaimed book, Ancestor Trouble. This event also features an artist-led invocation, riffing on specific works of Smith’s, that highlight the complex relationships between ourselves and our lineages, featuring collaborating artist Lucien Dante Lazar. The Compass Rose Catalog Launch & Talk Saturday, December 2, 2023, 2-4pm Gallery 308, Landmark Building A This event is free and open to the public. (Please reserve a space, and/or pre-purchase a catalog at the <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/15.0.3/72x72/1f517.png" alt="🔗" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> in our bio) A book signing and refreshments follow the conversation. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/fortmasonart/">#fortmasonart</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/fmcac/">#FMCAC</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/artistsoninstagram/">#artistsoninstagram</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/sunnyasmith/">#sunnyasmith</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/fortmasonfarmersmarket/">#fortmasonfarmersmarket</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/fortmasonflix/">#fortmasonflix</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/fortmasonsf/">#fortmasonsf</a>
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<title>Appearances in Brattleboro and Baltimore</title>
<link>https://maudnewton.com/2023/10/appearances-in-brattleboro-and-baltimore/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 03 Oct 2023 19:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[I'll be at the Brattleboro Lit Fest, in Vermont, and the Lost Weekend Festival, in Baltimore, later this month. Hope to see you!
The post <a href="https://maudnewton.com/2023/10/appearances-in-brattleboro-and-baltimore/">Appearances in Brattleboro and Baltimore</a> appeared first on <a href="https://maudnewton.com">Maud Newton</a>.
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I’m excited to be visiting two places I love—Vermont and Baltimore—later this month. 
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<li>October 14, 2023: <a href="https://brattleborolitfest.org/authors/nonfiction-authors/">Brattleboro Lit Fest</a>, with Liz Scheier (<a href="https://www.lizscheier.com/book">Never Simple</a>). In person. Brattleboro, Vermont, 9:30 AM ET.</li>
<li>October 21, 2023: <a href="https://thelostweekendbaltimore.com/">The Lost Weekend</a> festival with Baynard Woods (<a href="https://greedyreads.com/item/uG_5-sYoQbS9mn0fIuosGg">Inheritance</a>), thanks to <a href="https://greedyreads.com/">Greedy Reads</a>. In person. Baltimore, Maryland, 1:45 PM ET.</li>
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Hope to see you! 
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<title>Christian Nationalist News and Private Jets</title>
<link>https://maudnewton.com/2023/09/christian-nationalist-news-and-private-jets/</link>
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<pubDate>Sun, 17 Sep 2023 14:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Over the past century, my family has given an enormous amount of money to extreme evangelical Christian preachers, back to my great-grandmother in Dallas, who was so poor afterward that she couldn't buy food or firewood. Nowadays, my mom and stepfather also get their "news" from Kenneth Copeland's Christian nationalist Victory Channel. Copeland is the preacher with three private jets who asked his supporters for donations so that he didn't have to fly with "demons" on commercial air travel. Recent guests include Lauren Boebert and the former president.
The post <a href="https://maudnewton.com/2023/09/christian-nationalist-news-and-private-jets/">Christian Nationalist News and Private Jets</a> appeared first on <a href="https://maudnewton.com">Maud Newton</a>.
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Over the past century, my family has given an enormous amount of money to extreme evangelical Christian preachers, back to my great-grandmother in Dallas, who was so poor afterward that she couldn’t buy food or firewood. Nowadays, my mom and stepfather also get their “news” from Kenneth Copeland’s Christian nationalist Victory Channel. Copeland is the preacher with three private jets who asked his supporters for donations so that he didn’t have to fly with “demons” on commercial air travel. Recent guests include Lauren Boebert and the former president.
I wrote about my parents, the Victory Channel, and more, in my first-ever <a href="https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/09/kenneth-copeland-victory-channel-donations.html">piece for Slate</a>, edited by the wonderful <a href="http://www.rebeccaonion.com/">Rebecca Onion</a>.
The post <a href="https://maudnewton.com/2023/09/christian-nationalist-news-and-private-jets/">Christian Nationalist News and Private Jets</a> appeared first on <a href="https://maudnewton.com">Maud Newton</a>.
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<title>Atlantic’s Books To Feel Closer to Others</title>
<link>https://maudnewton.com/2023/09/ancestor-trouble-in-the-atlantic/</link>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Maud Newton]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Fri, 01 Sep 2023 19:53:13 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[One of my strongest hopes in writing Ancestor Trouble was that it might help some people feel less marooned with their own ancestor troubles. So you can imagine how touched and floored I was to find the book listed in The Atlantic by Tajja Isen—a writer and editor I deeply admire—as one of "Six Books That Will Make You You Feel Less Alone," alongside great books like Saeed Jones' Alive at the End of the World and others I need to read. 
The post <a href="https://maudnewton.com/2023/09/ancestor-trouble-in-the-atlantic/">Atlantic’s Books To Feel Closer to Others</a> appeared first on <a href="https://maudnewton.com">Maud Newton</a>.
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Book Recommendations
Six Books To Read When You Want to Feel Closer to Others
The following six titles are correctives to isolation.
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One of my strongest hopes in writing <a href="https://maudnewton.com/book/ancestor-trouble/">Ancestor Trouble</a> was that it might help some people feel less marooned with their own ancestor troubles. So you can imagine how touched and floored I was to find the book <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2023/09/books-human-connection/675208/">listed in The Atlantic</a> by Tajja Isen—a writer and editor I deeply admire—as one of “Six Books To Read When You Want to Feel Closer to Others,” alongside great books like Saeed Jones’ <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/alive-at-the-end-of-the-world-saeed-jones/18321776">Alive at the End of the World</a> and others I need to read.
Here’s what she wrote:
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Ancestor Trouble, by Maud Newton
In this deeply researched memoir, Newton explores our connections with biological family. For Newton, that particular kind of relation can be vexed. She has long been fascinated by stories about the generations that preceded her, but she must also face the difficult parts of that history—for example, the virulent racism of her estranged father, the casual bigotry of her beloved grandmother, or, further back, her relatives who enslaved people. “It’s one thing to acknowledge bigotry and inhumanity where we expect it,” Newton writes; “it’s another thing to face and acknowledge it in the people we love most.” Her meticulous excavation of her family tree is both an engaging narrative and a clear-eyed reckoning. Ancestor Trouble asks not only what we owe those who came before us but also how the wrongs of our forebears inform what we owe those alive with us today. Newton has a passionate interest in the secrets of her bloodline and how they might erupt—genetically, dispositionally, psychologically—in her own life. Her research leads her into an exploration of the genealogy industry and global practices of ancestor worship, presenting a panoramic case for the value of honoring and reconciling one’s relationship to a challenging heritage.
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I devoured Isen’s <a href="https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Some-of-My-Best-Friends/Tajja-Isen/9781982178420">Some of My Best Friends</a> last year. Her newsletter is <a href="https://tajjaisen.substack.com/">Creative Practice</a>. 
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