Kinfolks: Falling Off the Family Tree - Tapa blanda

Alther, Lisa

 
9781611451764: Kinfolks: Falling Off the Family Tree
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ISBN 10: 1611451760 ISBN 13: 9781611451764
Editorial: Arcade, 2012

Sinopsis

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.

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A sometimes hilarious, often poignant, always memorable ride. --Judy Blume

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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.

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Editorial
Arcade
Año de publicación
2012
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1611451760
ISBN 13 
9781611451764
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
288
Contacto del fabricante
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Persona responsable
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9781559708326: Kinfolks: Falling Off the Family Tree - The Search for My Melungeon Ancestors

Edición Destacada

ISBN 10:  1559708328 ISBN 13:  9781559708326
Editorial: Arcade, 2007
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