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Kinfolks

Name: Kinfolks
Brand: Skyhorse Publishing
SKU: 09243122
Price: 13.94 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Lisa Alther
ISBN: 9781611451764

Falling Off the Family Tree: The Search for My Melungeon Ancestors

Lisa Alther

Language

English

Book Paperback

Libristo code: 09243122

Publishers Skyhorse Publishing, April 2012

Most of us grow up knowing who we are and where we come from. Lisa Alther's mother hailed from New Y... Full description

Libristo code: 09243122

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Most of us grow up knowing who we are and where we come from. Lisa Alther's mother hailed from New York, her father from Virginia. One day a babysitter told Lisa about the Melungeons: six-fingered child-snatchers who hid in caves. Forgetting about these creepy kidnappers until she had a daughter of her own, Lisa learned they were actually an isolated group of dark-skinned people--often with extra thumbs--living in East Tennessee. But who were they? Descendants of Sir Walter Raleigh's Lost Colony? Kin of shipwrecked Portuguese or Turkish sailors? Or were they the children of frontiersman, or displaced Native Americans? Part sidesplitting travelogue, part how (and how not) to climb your family tree, Alther's "Kinfolks" casts light on a little-known part of America's contentious racial history; it shimmers with wicked humor, dazzles with wit, and demonstrates just how wacky and wonderful our human family truly is.