My Grandfathers House, Robert Clark
My Grandfathers House, Robert Clark
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My Grandfather's House
A Genealogy of Doubt and Faith

Author: Robert Clark

Narrator: Brian Keeler

Unabridged: 11 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 05/02/2008


Synopsis

Author of the Edgar Award-winning mystery, Mr. White's Confession, Robert Clark explores mysteries of a different nature in this powerful history of doubt, faith, and religious belief. Culminating in the author's own conversion to the Catholic Church, this thought-provoking book documents five centuries of his family's spiritual evolution. When Henry VIII broke with the Roman Catholic Church at the end of the Middle Ages, Robert Clark's ancestors went with him. Eventually the Puritans among them made it to the American colonies. One of them, a doctor, was present at the Salem witch trials. A more recent relative, a cousin of Ralph Waldo Emerson, added Transcendentalism to the Clark legacy. Using a genealogy more colorful than most, Robert Clark has created an insightful, historically rich autobiography. Brian Keeler's warm narration leaves listeners inspired by the author's personal journey and invites them to ask some thoughtful questions of their own.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jay

Tracing his ancestry back 500 years, PNBA (Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association) book award-winner Robert Clark (Mr. White’s Confessions) maps a legacy of religious belief, disbelief, and faith that mirrors his own spiritual quest. Although he speaks to his recent re-entry into the Catholic Chur......more

Goodreads review by Cynthia

Enjoyable trip through someone's genealogical tree. Funny thing, a relative of the writer has a memorial stone in Brewster on Cape Cod and I was looking for the grandfather's house on that street. Not realizing until the end of the book that the home was elsewhere . ha ha.......more

Goodreads review by Karen

Clark combines two of my great interests: who we came from and why we're here. He traces his English ancestors' religious lives, and it's a mirror of the break from Catholicism, through the Protestant movements of the United States. I've discovered ancestors of my own who were part of that same hist......more