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**In this dazzling, hilarious memoir, best-selling author of *Kinflicks* Lisa Alther chronicles her search for the missing--often mysterious--branches of her family tree.**Most of us grow up thinking we know who we are and where we come from. Lisa Alther's mother hailed from New York, her father from Virginia, and every day they reenacted the Civil War at home in East Tennessee. Then one night a grizzled babysitter with brown teeth told Lisa about the Melungeons: six-fingered child-snatchers who hid in cliff caves outside town. Forgetting about these creepy kidnappers until she had a daughter of her own, Lisa learned that the Melungeons were actually a group of dark-skinned people--some with extra thumbs--living in isolated pockets in the South. But who were they? Where did they come from? Were they the descendants of Sir Walter Raleigh's Lost Colony, or of shipwrecked Portuguese or Turkish sailors? Or were they the children of European frontiersmen, African slaves, and Native Americans? Theories abounded, but no one seemed to know for sure.Learning that a cousin had had his extra thumbs removed, Lisa set out to discover who these mysterious Melungeons really were and why her grand

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Author

Alther, Lisa

Publisher

Arcade Publishing

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781559708326

Category

history

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Memoir

Rating

3.45 / 5 (186 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13