The Anatomy of Inheritance
The Ana tomy of Inheritance What we are given. What we refuse. What we cannot put down. June is the month of graduations and Father's Days, of wills read aloud in lawyers' offices and basements emptied of a lifetime's debris. It is the month when what came before crashes against what is trying to begin. Our June selections examine inheritance in its fullest sense: blood and soil, trauma and talent, debt and grace. These are books about the weight of the past—and the breathtaking audacity of choosing what to pass forward. 1. For the Literary Fiction & Generational Reckoning Circle North Woods by Daniel Mason A single house in the New England woods. A colonial couple fleeing religious persecution. A pair of twin sisters. A Revolutionary War deserter. A beetle. An apple. A ghost. Mason's astonishing novel follows one plot of land through four centuries, showing how place inherits every joy and crime committed upon it. Each ch...
