I was looking up a book about genealogy on Amazon a while ago, and as those things often do, that book led to another book led to this one, I think. Or something like that. I requested Annie's Ghosts: A Journey Into A Family Secret by Steve Luxenberg through ILL. I know that I always say that non-fiction and I don't get along, but lately that seems to be all that I'm reading. And honestly stories like this that essentially are some sort of genealogical scavenger hunt or detective story tend to suck me in. I like them because I have an interest in genealogy and have become by my own family's historian and keeper of the family tree--and anyone who has done any long term genealogical research knows that every family tree has its share of mysteries. This story begins with the roundabout revelation of a decades old family secret. At a meeting with her doctor and social worker, Luxenberg's mother, Beth, casually mentions a sister. This informatio...
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