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SUMMARY:Book Club Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Our next meeting will be Sunday\, August 21 at 12:30 pm in the comfort of your own home via Zoom. We will be discussing Libby Copeland’s The Lost Family. To join the Zoom meeting\, click here (Password: 1955) \nSYNOPSIS \nYou swab your cheek or spit into a vial\, then send it away to a lab somewhere. Weeks later you get a report that might tell you where your ancestors came from or if you carry certain genetic risks. Or the report could reveal a long-buried family secret and upend your entire sense of identity. Soon a lark becomes an obsession\, an incessant desire to find answers to questions at the core of your being\, like “Who am I?” and “Where did I come from?” Welcome to the age of home genetic testing. \nIn The Lost Family\, journalist Libby Copeland investigates what happens when we embark on a vast social experiment with little understanding of the ramifications. Copeland explores the culture of genealogy buffs\, the science of DNA\, and the business of companies like Ancestry and 23andMe\, all while tracing the story of one woman\, her unusual results\, and a relentless methodical drive for answers that becomes a thoroughly modern genetic detective story. \nThe Lost Family delves into the many lives that have been irrevocably changed by home DNA tests—a technology that represents the end of family secrets. There are the adoptees who’ve used the tests to find their birth parents; donor-conceived adults who suddenly discover they have more than fifty siblings; hundreds of thousands of Americans who discover their fathers aren’t biologically related to them\, a phenomenon so common it is known as a “non-paternity event”; and individuals who are left to grapple with their conceptions of race and ethnicity when their true ancestral histories are discovered. Throughout these accounts\, Copeland explores the impulse toward genetic essentialism and raises the question of how much our genes should get to tell us about who we are. With more than thirty million people having undergone home DNA testing\, the answer to that question is more important than ever. \nGripping and masterfully told\, The Lost Family is a spectacular book on a big\, timely subject. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \n Libby Copeland is an award-winning journalist who writes about culture\, science and human behavior. Her book\, The Lost Family\, published March 3\, 2020\, looks at the impact of home DNA testing on the American family. A staff reporter and editor for The Washington Post for over a decade\, she now writes from New York for publications including The Atlantic\, Slate\, New York Magazine\, Smithsonian Magazine\, The New York Times\, The New Republic\, Esquire.com\, The Wall Street Journal\, Fast Company\, Glamour and more. In recent years\, she’s chronicled the cultural and personal implications of at-home DNA testing. \n 
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LOCATION:The Shaar\, 1981 Oxford St\, Halifax\, NS\, B3H 4A4\, Canada
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