Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation

Lesley Heiser's reviews appear in the Baltimore&nbsp;Sun&nbsp;and&nbsp;The Rumpus, her fiction appears in&nbsp;Boulevard&nbsp;and&nbsp;The Nervous Breakdown, and her nonfiction can be found in&nbsp;DIAGRAM,&nbsp;Ms.,&nbsp;Puerto del Sol, and&nbsp;Taproot&nbsp;among others. The winner of two Maine Literary Awards, she is assistant editor of creative nonfiction&nbsp;at the&nbsp;Los Angeles Review of Books.&nbsp;

Lesley Heiser

Entering the Prism of Family: On Maud Newton’s “Ancestor Trouble”

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf

Memoir &amp; Essay

Lesley Heiser's reviews appear in the Baltimore&nbsp;Sun&nbsp;and&nbsp;The Rumpus, her fiction appears in&nbsp;Boulevard&nbsp;and&nbsp;The Nervous Breakdown, and her nonfiction can be found in&nbsp;DIAGRAM,&nbsp;Ms.,&nbsp;Puerto del Sol, and&nbsp;Taproot&nbsp;among others. The winner of two Maine Literary Awards, she is assistant editor of creative nonfiction&nbsp;at the&nbsp;Los Angeles Review of Books.&nbsp;