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Meditations on Kinship

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Writing, books, art. Kinship, broadly construed. Advocate for acknowledging troubled family histories honestly, open-heartedly, and with imagination.

About Maud Newton

I'm interested in books, art, psychology, ancestors, and kinship, broadly construed. My book, Ancestor Trouble, was a best of the year per New Yorker, NPR, Washington Post, Esquire; a John Leonard prize finalist; and a Roxane Gay pick. She/her.

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