Some of todays most imaginative writers consider what it means to be made and fashioned by others. It is rare now for people to stay where they were raised and when we encounter one anotherwhether in person or increasingly onlineit is usually in contexts that obscure if not outright hide details about our past. But even in moments of pure selfinvention we are always shaped by the past. In Ancestors some of todays most imaginative writers consider what it means to be made and fashioned by ot