"Ancestor Trouble" with Maud Newton and Rebecca Donner
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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 and been shot by one of his wives.
Her mother's grandfather killed a man with a hay hook and died in an institution. Mental illness and religious fanaticism percolated through Maud's maternal lines back to an ancestor accused of being a witch in Puritan-era Massachusetts.
Maud's father, an aerospace engineer turned lawyer, was an educated man who extolled the virtues of slavery and obsessed over the "purity" of his family bloodline, which he traced back to the Revolutionary War.
Maud will be in conversation with author, Rebecca Donner.
Maud Newton is a writer and a critic. "Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation," her first book, has been called "a literary feat" by the New York Times Book Review.
Rebecca Donner is the author of the instant New York Times bestseller "All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days, " which won the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography.
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