The Tiger's Wife

The essay also gives a great nod to contemporary inheritance novels just to prove that this genre isn't dead, and we are still obsessed with it.

It lists Philip Meyers' The Son for Texas oil dynasties, Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing, tracking descendants from 18th century Ghana, Abraham Verghese's The Covenant of Water in South India, Brit Bennett's The Vanishing Half, and Téa Obreht's The Tiger's Wife.

A great list.

It's absolute proof that we are still deeply obsessed with what an ancestor's compromise looks like when it manifests in a modern body.