It's All Relative: Adventures Up and Down the World's Family

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It's All Relative: Adventures Up and Down the World's Family Tree

New York Times bestselling author of The Know-It-All and The Year of Living Biblically, A.J. Jacobs undergoes a hilarious, heartfelt quest to understand what constitutes familyâ€”where it begins and how far it goesâ€”and attempts to untangle the true meaning of the â€œFamily of Humankind.â€

A.J. Jacobs has received some strange emails over the years, but this note was perhaps the strangest: â€œYou donâ€™t know me, but Iâ€™m your eighth cousin. And we have over 80,000 relatives of yours in our database.â€

Thatâ€™s enough family members to fill Madison Square Garden four times over. Who are these people, A.J. wondered, and how do I find them? So began Jacobsâ€™s three-year adventure to help build the biggest family tree in history.

Jacobsâ€™s journey would take him to all seven continents. He drank beer with a US president, found himself singing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and unearthed genetic links to Hollywood actresses and real-life scoundrels. After all, we can choose our friends, but not our family.

â€œWhether heâ€™s posing as a celebrity, outsourcing his chores, or adhering strictly to the Bible, we love reading about the wacky lifestyle experiments of author A.J. Jacobsâ€ (Entertainment Weekly). Now Jacobs upends, in ways both meaningful and hilarious, our understanding of genetics and genealogy, tradition and tribalism, identity and connection. Itâ€™s All Relative is a fascinating look at the bonds that connect us all.

Country	USA
Author	A. J. Jacobs
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781476734514
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
NumberOfPages	353
PublicationDate	2017-11-07
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
ReleaseDate	2017-11-07
Studio	Simon & Schuster

It's All Relative: Adventures Up and Down the World's Family Tree

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