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New York Times best-selling writer of The Know-It-All and The 12 months of Living Biblically A. J. Jacobs undergoes a entertaining, heartfelt quest to comprehend what constitutes family - where it commences and how far it goes - and makes an attempt to untangle the real so this means of the "category of humankind". A. J. Jacobs has received some unusual emails over time, but this take note was perhaps the strangest: "You don't know me, but I'm your eighth cousin. And we have over 80,000 family members of yours inside our database." That's enough family to complete Madison Square Garden four times over. Who are these folks, A. J. pondered, and how do I find them? So started out Jacobs' three-year trip to help build the largest family tree in history. Jacobs' journey would take him to all or any seven continents. He drank beer with a US chief executive, found himself singing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and unearthed genetic links to Hollywood stars and real-life scoundrels. In the end, we can choose our friends but not our family. Now Jacobs upends, with techniques both significant and entertaining, our knowledge of genetics and genealogy, tradition and tribalism, id and interconnection. It's All Relative is a remarkable look at the bonds that hook up us all.
