Description: Up for Sale is a Memoir Paperback Book Titled "Kinfolks: Falling off the Family Tree: The Search for My Melungeon Ancestors" by Lisa Alther Synopsis: 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." Condition: Used Good; Clean Pages; Solid Binding Shipping: United States Postal Service Media Mail Rate
Price: 6.99 USD
Location: Hagerstown, Maryland
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Shipping Cost: 4.63 USD
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Return shipping will be paid by: Seller
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 60 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Features: Illustrated
Custom Bundle: No
Format: Trade Paperback
Personalize: No
Item Width: 5.5in.
Number of Pages: 241 Pages
Item Length: 8.2in.
Item Height: 0.8in.
Topic: The Search for My Melungeon Ancestors
Book Series: N/A
Vintage: No
Era: 2010s
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Ex Libris: No
Edition: First Edition
Language: English
Publication Year: 2012
Item Weight: 12 Oz
Book Title: Kinfolks : Falling OFF! the Family Tree
Intended Audience: Adults
Author: Lisa Alther
Original Language: English
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Literary Movement: Post-Modernism
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Inscribed: No
Signed: No
Genre: Biography & Autobiography, Travel, Literary Criticism
Personalized: No
Type: Memoir Book
