Kinfolks: Falling Off the Family Tree: The Search for My Melungeon Ancestors by Lisa Alther

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

Lisa Alther

241 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction biography history emotional reflective slow-paced
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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...

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