Hilton Als reads an excerpt from his book The Women. (12 minutes)
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Act Two: Blood Ties
The discovery of 30 century-old postcards written in old Yiddish by a distant family member challenges David Kestenbaum’s ideas about the unimportance of blood ties.
Act Four: Potus Operandi
Ten years ago Jonathan Menjivar was on the cusp of something big: the birth of his daughter.
Act Three: Sklar-Crossed Brothers
Being an identical twin is kind of like having a parallel world right on top of ours, one in which there is another version of you running around.
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