![]() ![]() While it’s often “cast as a narcissistic Western peculiarity,” she argues that “ancestor hunger circles the globe” as people have increasingly begun to search for “a deeper sense of community, less ‘I’ and more ‘we.’ ” Newton, though, was raised on fanciful stories of her relatives-including a grandfather with 13 ex-wives, and her great-aunt Maude (the inspiration behind Newton’s writing pseudonym), who died young in an institution-and tales of murder, witchcraft, and spiritual superstition, all of which she interrogates here with a shrewd eye. Newton debuts with a masterful mix of memoir and cultural criticism that wrestles with America’s ancestry through her own family’s complex past. ![]()
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