From a New York Timesbestselling author, a blend of ';history, raucous wit, genealogical sleuthing, and charming childhood memories' (Wellesley Magazine). In a ';wise, funny inquiry into the complexities of inheritance,' this acclaimed Southern author investigates her family's hidden roots and the mysterious Melungeons (Booklist, starred review). 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. It wasn't until adulthood that Lisa learned the Melungeons were actually an isolated group of dark-skinned peopleoften with extra thumbsliving 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 frontiersmen, or displaced Native Americans? Part sidesplitting travelogue,...
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