{"id":29778,"date":"2015-12-22T04:22:01","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T04:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=29778"},"modified":"2017-03-14T14:14:14","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T14:14:14","slug":"the-jugglers-children-a-journey-into-family-legend-and-the-genes-that-bind-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=29778","title":{"rendered":"The Juggler&#8217;s Children: A Journey into Family, Legend and the Genes that Bind Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.ca\/books\/277\/the-juggler-s-children-by-carolyn-abraham\" target=\"_blank\">The Juggler&#8217;s Children: A Journey into Family, Legend and the Genes that Bind Us<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.ca\" target=\"_blank\">Random House Canada<\/a><br \/>\n2013-03-26<br \/>\n400 pages<br \/>\nHardcover ISBN: 9780679314592<br \/>\neBook ISBN: 9780307372154<\/p>\n<p><strong>Carolyn Abraham<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.ca\/books\/277\/the-juggler-s-children-by-carolyn-abraham\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/images\/dyn\/cover\/?source=9780679314592&amp;width=420\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Carolyn Abraham explores the stunning power and ethical pitfalls of using genetic tests to answer questions of genealogy\u2014by cracking the genome of her own family.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, tens of thousands of people have been drawn to mail-order DNA tests to learn about their family roots. Abraham investigates whether this burgeoning new science can help solve 2 mysteries that have haunted her multi-racial family for more than a century. Both hinge on her enigmatic great-grandfathers\u2014a hero who died young and a scoundrel who disappeared. Can the DNA they left behind reveal their stories from beyond the grave?<\/p>\n<p>Armed with DNA kits, Abraham criss-crosses the globe, taking cells from relatives and strangers, a genetic journey that turns up far more than she bargained for\u2014ugly truths and moral quandaries. With lively writing and a compelling personal narrative, <em>The Juggler&#8217;s Children<\/em> tackles profound questions around the genetics of identity, race and humanity, and tells a big story about our small world, with vivid proof that genes bind us all to the branches of one family tree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carolyn Abraham explores the stunning power and ethical pitfalls of using genetic tests to answer questions of genealogy\u2014by cracking the genome of her own family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,11,19,2039,8,17],"tags":[14145,14146],"class_list":["post-29778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-books","category-canada","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","category-monographs","tag-carolyn-abraham","tag-random-house-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29778"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52437,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29778\/revisions\/52437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}