It's All Relative: Adventures Up and Down the World’s Family Tree
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| Rating | : | 4.85 (823 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1442376066 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 252 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the Author A.J. He is the editor at large of Esquire magazine, a contributor to NPR, and has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Entertainment Weekly. Jacobs is the author of It’s All Relative and the New York Times bestsellers The Know-It-All,The Year of Living Biblically, and The Guinea Pig Diaries. . He lives in New York City with his wife and kids. He is the editor at large of Esquire magazine, a contributor to NPR, and has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Entertainment Weekly. He lives in New York City with his wife and kids. Visit him at AJJacobs.A.J. Visit him at AJJacobs. Jacobs is the author of It’s All
. Visit him at AJJacobs. He is the editor at large of Esquire magazine, a contributor to NPR, and has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Entertainment Weekly. He lives in New York City with his wife and kids. He is the editor at large of Esquire magazine, a contributor to NPR, and has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post,
And we have over 80,000 relatives of yours in our database.”That’s enough family members to fill Madison Square Garden four times over. wondered, and how do I find them? So began Jacobs’s three-year adventure to help build the biggest family tree in history.Jacobs’s journey would take him to all seven continents. Jacobs” (Entertainment Weekly). Jacobs undergoes a hilarious, heartfelt quest to understand what constitutes family—where it begins and how far it goes—and attempts to untangle the true meaning of the “Family of Humankind.”A.J. Who are these people, A.J. It’s All Relative is a fascinating look at the bonds that connect us all.. Jacobs has received some strange emails over the years, but this note was perhaps the strangest: “You don’t know me, but I’m your eighth cousin. After all, we can choose our friends, but not our family.“Whether he’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. New York Times bestselling author of The Know-It-All and The Year of Living Biblically, A.J. Now Jacobs upends, in ways both meaningful and hilarious, our understanding of genetics and genealogy, tradition and tribalism, identity an