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"So, as you see, I am familiar with the case. However, we can't discuss it unless you learn more about some other court cases, so that you can compare your father's trial with other, more baffling cases, and see it in the context of the madness that reigned at the time."In Ján Johanides riveting Slovak novel, you the reader are thrust in medias res, assuming the role of a silent partner in a one-sided conversation with someone you know nothing about. As the pages turn, you must grasp onto significant details to piece together who you are, who the narrator is, and why you have sought him out. As the story unfolds you come to learn that the old archivist, who can't seem to stay on point, has both a tragic history and the keys to unlocking your family's darkest secret. A secret that may or may not involve the Czechoslovak secret police, American and Soviet intelligence, Israeli politics, and a tire full of 90,000 dollars.Set after the fall of communism and the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, casual paranoia permeates the novel as it reveals how the madness of the Communist era has led to the instability of the present. Written in 1995, this haunting novel that evokes the spirit of John Le Carre and the style of Carlos Fuentes shines a searchlight on issues that plague post-Communist Europe today.

Language & Literature. --- Family secrets

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Family secrets --- Americans --- Irish Americans --- Widows

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Family secrets --- Biographers --- Autobiography --- Secrets, Family --- Secrecy --- Authors --- Autobiographies --- Egodocuments --- Memoirs --- Biography as a literary form --- Authorship --- History and criticism --- Technique

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"Bill Griffeth, longtime genealogy buff, takes a DNA test that has an unexpected outcome: 'If the results were correct, it meant that the family I had spent years documenting was not my own.' Bill undertakes a quest to solve the mystery of his origins, a quest which will shake his sense of identity. As he takes us on his journey, we learn about choices made by his ancestors, parents, and others--and we see Bill measure and weigh his own difficult choices as he confronts the past"--Publisher's description.

Griffith family. --- Genetic genealogy. --- Family secrets. --- Généalogie génétique. --- Secrets de famille. --- Families. --- DNA and genealogy --- DNA genealogy --- DNA in genealogy --- Genetics and genealogy --- Genetics in genealogy --- Genealogy --- Secrets, Family --- Secrecy --- Families --- Family life --- Family --- Family relationships --- Family structure --- Relationships, Family --- Structure, Family --- Social institutions --- Birth order --- Domestic relations --- Home --- Households --- Kinship --- Marriage --- Matriarchy --- Parenthood --- Patriarchy --- Social aspects --- Social conditions

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The articles in this Special Issue of Genealogy titled “Focus of Family Historians: How Ancestor Research Affects Self-Understanding and Well-Being” cover topics including the psychosocial motivations that impel family history research, its therapeutic and healing aspects, and the emotional outcomes of dealing with unexpected findings. Broader issues, such as the ubiquity of ancestral acknowledgement and veneration throughout history and its links with religion are also explored. Papers include scholarly interpretations of case-based material, empirical research, and interpretive literature reviews emanating from a wide range of social science disciplines.

family history --- psychology --- ancestry --- identity construction --- family tree --- war trauma --- attachment --- identity --- immigration --- forgetting --- emotional geography --- context --- environments --- homelands --- heritage --- genealogical motivation --- family history and identity --- family history and altruism --- family history and curiosity --- secular rituals --- post-religious --- sacred stories --- pilgrimage --- family ritual --- ceremony --- historical consciousness --- family history research --- family historians --- temporal orientation --- case study --- adoption --- late-discovery --- family secrets --- shock and losses --- historical trauma --- traumatic reenactment --- psychoanalysis --- infant attachment --- stress biology --- Adverse Childhood Experiences --- genealogy --- depression --- trauma --- prolonged grief disorder --- adverse childhood experiences --- alcoholic --- alcohol use disorder --- bereavement --- biological identity --- family identity --- DNA testing --- thematic analysis --- biogeographic ancestry --- n/a --- archaeology --- bereavement studies --- continuing bonds --- problematic stuff --- ancestors --- personhood