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Unearthing : a story of tangled love and family secrets / Kyo Maclear.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Scribner, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Edition: First Scribner hardcover editionDescription: 393 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 166801260X
  • 9781668012604
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PR9199.4.M32597 Z46 2023
Contents:
Daikan (greater cold) -- Shunbun (spring equinox) -- Seimei (clear and bright) -- Kokuu (harvest rain) -- Taisho (greater heat) -- Shōsho (manageable heat) -- Hakuro (white dew) -- Kanro (cold dew) -- Sōkō (frost falls) -- Rittō (beginning of winter) -- Tōji (winter solstice) -- Sekki (smalls seasons).
Summary: "Three months after Kyo Maclear's father dies in December 2018, she gets the results of a DNA test showing that she and the father who raised her are not biologically related. Suddenly Maclear becomes a detective in her own life, unravelling a family mystery piece by piece, and assembling the story of her biological father. Along the way, larger questions arise: what exactly is kinship? And what does it mean to be a family? Unearthing is a captivating and propulsive story of inheritance that goes beyond heredity. Infused with moments of suspense, it is also a thoughtful reflection on race, lineage, and our cultural fixation on recreational genetics. Readers of Michelle Zauner's bestseller Crying in H Mart will recognize Maclear's unflinching insights on grief and loyalty, and keen perceptions into the relationship between mothers and daughters. What gets planted, and what gets buried? What role does storytelling play in unearthing the past and making sense of a life? Can the humble act of tending a garden provide common ground for an inquisitive daughter and her complicated mother? As it seeks to answer these questions, Unearthing bursts with the very love it seeks to understand"--Other editions: Reproduction of (manifestation):: Maclear, Kyo, 1970- Unearthing
List(s) this item appears in: Garden of Cultural Diversity

The chapters are named according to the traditional microseasons of the Japanese calendar, made up of of solar terms (sekki) that reflect seasonal aspects of the natural world. -Miller Library staff note.

Daikan (greater cold) -- Shunbun (spring equinox) -- Seimei (clear and bright) -- Kokuu (harvest rain) -- Taisho (greater heat) -- Shōsho (manageable heat) -- Hakuro (white dew) -- Kanro (cold dew) -- Sōkō (frost falls) -- Rittō (beginning of winter) -- Tōji (winter solstice) -- Sekki (smalls seasons).

"Three months after Kyo Maclear's father dies in December 2018, she gets the results of a DNA test showing that she and the father who raised her are not biologically related. Suddenly Maclear becomes a detective in her own life, unravelling a family mystery piece by piece, and assembling the story of her biological father. Along the way, larger questions arise: what exactly is kinship? And what does it mean to be a family? Unearthing is a captivating and propulsive story of inheritance that goes beyond heredity. Infused with moments of suspense, it is also a thoughtful reflection on race, lineage, and our cultural fixation on recreational genetics. Readers of Michelle Zauner's bestseller Crying in H Mart will recognize Maclear's unflinching insights on grief and loyalty, and keen perceptions into the relationship between mothers and daughters. What gets planted, and what gets buried? What role does storytelling play in unearthing the past and making sense of a life? Can the humble act of tending a garden provide common ground for an inquisitive daughter and her complicated mother? As it seeks to answer these questions, Unearthing bursts with the very love it seeks to understand"--

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