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    The Books Briefing: How to Build a Family Legacy

    Tracking how we got from there to here: Your weekly guide to the best in books
    by Myles Poydras Nov 08, 2019 3 minutes
    Source: New York Public Library

    How is a family legacy built? Through novels or memoirs, authors puzzle together the myths and realities of their family history to help readers think through that question—and to process it for themselves.

    Writing her novel, , which traces the history of a family home over 50 years in the city of Detroit, helped Angela Flournoy learn more about the gutting transformation of the place where her father grew up. Janny Scott explores the life of

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