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I haven’t done a #ThrowbookThursday in a while, so I’m extra excited to talk about Not My Father’s Son by Alan Cumming. I first read and reviewed this book in 2017, but I recently found a copy at my used bookstore and took it home with me! I’d like to reread it sometime, but here were my original thoughts: ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ My exposure to Alan Cumming was through his straight-laced character Eli Gold on The Good Wife, so this memoir was a shock to the system (in a good way). I had no idea that he had played so many diverse roles! After being asked to star in a show investigating celebrity ancestry, Cumming is forced to reconsider what he believed to be true. As someone with a complicated relationship with my own father and family, a lot of what he said really resonated. This one stayed with me long after I finished it. Tell me about a backlist book you enjoyed that it feels like no one’s heard of! TW/CW: child abuse, death of a parent (please check for others as it’s been a while!) ID in alt text. via Instagram https://instagr.am/p/CNIEI4xr669/