Kinfolks: Falling Off the Family Tree - The Search for My Melungeon Ancestors
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| Rating | : | 4.32 (675 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1559708328 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 264 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-31 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Mulungeon Research" according to D. Morton. I liked this book because it was a subject I was interested in. It was also a history of the ares I live in. Karen K. Rowe said Melungeon?? Metis?? Huh??. Lisa Alther's book, "Kinfolks" is an outstanding portrait, written over the course of many years, of her search for her ancestral identity. I can well relate to Southern relatives who choose to ignore or deny the Native American (and whatever other) blood that we have inheirited. I come from a family who were born & raised in southeastern Kentucky. Oral histori. Kinfolks The search for identity begins at birth and continues through life for most of us. Lisa Alther generously takes us along on a significant foray into her attempt to uncover the hidden part of her immediate ancestry in an attempt to learn more of who she is. A product of the mountain South, Ms. Alther has been subtly deprived of a rich part of her heritage becaus
Then one night a grizzled babysitter with brown teeth told Lisa about the Melungeons: six-fingered child-snatchers who hid in cliff caves outside town. In this dazzling, hilarious memoir, best-selling author of Kinflicks Lisa Alther chronicles her search for the missing--often mysterious--branches of her family tree. Most of us grow up thinking we know who we are and where we come from. Part sidesplitting travelogue, part how--and how not--to climb your family tree, Kinfolks shimmers with wicked humor, illustrating just how wacky and wonderful our human family really is.. Learning that a cousin had had his extra thumbs removed, Lisa set out to discover who these mysterious Melungeons really were and why her grandmo
Drolly hilarious and incisive, Alther attempts to decode family secrets, gets to know self-declared Melungeons, and considers her unexpected ties to Pocahontas, ultimately presenting a provocative take on the South's obsession with skin color. High-spirited Alther's curiosity sends her to dusty courthouse archives, Native American casinos, and locales across Europe and Turkey, and her findings enable her to bring historical Appalachia into focus as a landing place for refugees from all over Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. All rights reserved. From Booklist *Starred Review* Trading on the title of her first novel, the best-selling Kinflicks(1976), Alther presents Kinfolks, her first work of nonfiction, a wise, funny inquiry in