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The Village You Didn't Quite Come Home To: Notes on Ancestral Returns
Opinion & Reflection

The Village You Didn't Quite Come Home To: Notes on Ancestral Returns

We often imagine that visiting an ancestor's birthplace will bring a neat sense of closure. It rarely does. A trip to a Scottish fishing village suggests that the best origin journeys are the ones that make room for ambivalence rather than resolution.