The Family Tree: A Lynching in Georgia, a Legacy of Secrets, and My Search for the Truth Free Audiobook Download by Karen Branan

The memoir follow the author's search for her family's history and her own identity. The book recounts her ancestors' story of experiencing and surviving a lynching in Georgia, their move to North Dakota, their secrets, and the author's search for the truth.

"A gripping account of one woman's discovery of her ties to an infamous lynching" is the tag line for this book. Karen Branan, who has been fascinated by the story of an ancestor killed in a public lynching in Georgia in 1912 and her little known family connections to the Ku Klux Klan, tracks down the truth behind her family's past.

The Family Tree: A Lynching in Georgia, a Legacy of Secrets, and My Search for the Truth is an emotional story that follows one woman's search for her family tree. Karen Branan takes readers along on her journey that leads to surprising discoveries. Along the way, she confronts the horrifying reality of racial injustice during the Jim Crow era in America.

Picking up from where she left off in her first book, The Family Tree: A Lynching in Georgia, a Legacy of Secrets, and My Search for the Truth started with the lynching of her great-great-grandfather. It was a horrendous event that cast a long shadow over several generations of Branan's family.

Karen Branan and her family are descendants of one of the last surviving members of a young white woman and her black husband who were lynched in Georgia in 1923. The children—all seven of them—were seized by the white community after their father was lynched, and they passed through many homes as wards of the state. After she learns some startling truths about her family history, Karen begins a search for information that leads her to uncover more secrets than she bargained for.