For anyone pondering ancestors and their significance for us, I wanted to mention the giveaways I’ve started doing on my newsletter every month, in thanks for Ancestor Trouble pre-orders. I’m giving away two or three books that, in one way or another, fed into or inspired mine. Last month’s mini-library was: Ancestors: The Story of China Told Through the Lives . . .
Hello, old friends and readers! If you’ve been waiting to put down your hard-earned money for my first book, you’re in luck. Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation (Random House, March 2022) can be pre-ordered from your local independent bookstore or your online bookshop of choice. The wonderful Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn is offering signed or personalized copies (be . . .
Ancestor Trouble has a cover designed by Rachel Ake! It incorporates family photos, witchcraft testimony, and more from my ancestors.
My book has a title! It will be called Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation. And I’m putting together a class in Acknowledgement Genealogy.