The Tribal Knot(English, Paperback, McClanahan Rebecca)

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The Tribal Knot(English, Paperback, McClanahan Rebecca) is written by McClanahan Rebecca and published by Indiana University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 025300859X (ISBN 10) and 9780253008596 (ISBN 13).

Are we responsible for, and to, those forces that have formed us-our families, friends, and communities? Where do we leave off and others begin? In The Tribal Knot, Rebecca McClanahan looks for answers in the history of her family. Poring over letters, artifacts, and documents that span more than a century, she discovers a tribe of hardscrabble Midwest farmers, hunters, trappers, and laborers struggling to hold tight to the ties that bind them, through poverty, war, political upheavals, illness and accident, filicide and suicide, economic depressions, personal crises, and global disasters. Like the practitioners of Victorian "hair art" who wove strands of family members' hair into a single design, McClanahan braids her ancestors' stories into a single intimate narrative of her search to understand herself and her place in the family's complex past.