RaveThe Guardian\"...there has been an upsurge of books that focus on motherhood, and this memoir is a vivid, often harrowing example of the genre ... O’Connell is open, too, about the competing feelings of fear and desire, shame and artistic ambition ... Her book is a testament, a gift to mothers who might want their realities confirmed, as well as to everyone else.\
David Grann
RaveThe Guardian...as Grann carefully shows, the FBI’s victory declaration obscured the scope of headright-related killings. The US’s official death count for the Reign of Terror topped out at 24, but scholars who delved into the historical evidence believed the real death toll to be in the hundreds. Most of the murders weren’t solved. Instead, Grann says, the victims’ 'descendants carry out their own private investigations, which have no end. They live with doubts, suspecting dead relatives or old family friends or guardians' ... Grann’s accomplished and necessary account of injustice, avarice and racist violence, tells a story both old and new.
