Ancestor Trouble is a Finalist for the 2023 John Leonard Prize for Best First Book
Ancestor Trouble is a finalist for the John Leonard Prize, for a first book in any genre.
Ancestor Trouble is a finalist for the John Leonard Prize, for a first book in any genre.
I’m ecstatic to announce that Andrea Walker of Random House has acquired my forthcoming book on the science and superstition of ancestry, a subject that has obsessed me for years because of my own family and also because of the way it obsesses the culture at large. While writing my new story for Harper’s, “America’s Ancestry Craze,” I realized that it was mounting — . . .