![]() ![]() Mental illness and religious fanaticism percolated through Maud’s maternal lines back to an ancestor accused of being a witch in Puritan-era Massachusetts. ![]() Her mother’s grandfather killed a man with a hay hook and died in an institution. Her mother’s father, who came of age in Texas during the Great Depression, was said to have married thirteen times and been shot by one of his wives. Maud Newton’s ancestors have vexed and fascinated her since she was a girl.
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