It’s All Relative: Adventures Up and Down the World’s Family Tree Audiobook (Free)

#1 New York Times bestselling writer A.J. Jacobs undergoes a amusing, poignant quest to understand what constitutes family-where it starts and how far it goes-in It’s All Relative, a “thought-provoking…wonderful, easy-to-read, informative reserve” (Kirkus Testimonials, starred review).

A.J. Jacobs has received some strange emails over the years, but this note was perhaps the strangest: “You don’t understand me, but I’m your 8th cousin. And we have over 80,000 family members of yours inside our database.”

about It’s All Comparative: Adventures Up and Down the World’s Family members Tree

That’s enough family members to fill up Madison Square Backyard four times more than. Who are these folks, A.J. pondered, and how do you find them? So began Jacobs’s three-year experience to greatly help build the largest family tree ever sold. In It’s All Comparative, he “muses on the type of family and the interconnectedness of mankind in this engaging introduction to the world of genealogy” (Publishers Weekly).

Jacobs’s trip would take him to all seven continents. He drank beverage using a US leader, sung using the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and unearthed genetic links to Hollywood actresses and real-life scoundrels. In the end, we can choose our friends, however, not our family.

“Whether he’s posing like a superstar, outsourcing his tasks, or adhering strictly towards the Bible, we love reading about the wacky way of living experiments of author A.J. Jacobs” (Entertainment Weekly). Now Jacobs upends, with techniques both meaningful and hilarious, our understanding of genetics and genealogy, custom and tribalism, identification and connection. “Whimsical but also filled with solid journalism and eye-opening revelations about the annals of humanity, It’s All Relative is a real deal with” (Booklist, starred review).