Go Ask Your Father: One Man's Obsession with Finding His Origins Through DNA Testing - E-book - ePub

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 Lennard J Davis - Go Ask Your Father: One Man's Obsession with Finding His Origins Through DNA Testing.
Shortly before his father's death, Lennard Davis received a cryptic call from his uncle Abie, who said he had a secret he wanted to tell him one day.... Lire la suite
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Shortly before his father's death, Lennard Davis received a cryptic call from his uncle Abie, who said he had a secret he wanted to tell him one day. When finally revealed, the secret--that Abie himself was Davis's father, via donor insemination--seemed too preposterous to be true. Born before the wide use of such technologies, Davis was filled with doubt about the truth of what this ne'er-do-well uncle was claiming.
Moreover, Abie was mentally unstable, an unreliable witness to the past. For over twenty years, Davis tried to erase the whole episode from his mind. Then he decided to approach Ira Glass of This American Life so that he and the show could dig deeper into this mystery. Davis's obsession to find the truth led him to DNA labs and online genealogical research sites. A suspenseful and absorbing personal journey, this is also a fascinating intellectual foray into the history of artificial insemination and a moving investigation of all our attempts to understand ourselves.
The book is an expansion of the This American Life show also titled "Go Ask Your Father."

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  • Date de parution
    20/03/2015
  • Editeur
  • ISBN
    978-1-311-52128-6
  • EAN
    9781311521286
  • Format
    ePub
  • Caractéristiques du format ePub
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Biographie de Lennard J Davis

Lennard J Davis is distinguished professor of arts and sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago. A memoirist, novelist, scholar, journalist and commentator, Davis' works have appeared in The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Nation as well as on National Public Radio.

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