{"id":17454,"date":"2021-05-26T01:49:10","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T07:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=17454"},"modified":"2021-05-23T11:31:27","modified_gmt":"2021-05-23T17:31:27","slug":"book-21-of-52-not-my-fathers-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/book-21-of-52-not-my-fathers-son\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 21 (of 52) – Not My Father’s Son"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Not My Father’s Son – Alan Cumming<\/p><\/div>\n

When the producers of the popular UK genealogy show Who Do You Think You Are?<\/i> approached Alan Cumming\u00a0in 2010, he agreed, hoping to solve a family mystery involving his maternal grandfather, who disappeared in the Far East following World War II.\u00a0 That kicked off a few months of ups and downs, as Cumming learned not only the truth about how and why his grandfather disappeared from his mother’s life, but also brought an unwelcomed reconnection with his father, whom he had not talked to in 16 years.\u00a0 An insinuation, followed by a DNA test, initially rocked Alan’s world but ended up giving him the answers, and the closure, he was looking for.<\/p>\n

The title Not My Father’s Son<\/em> is both literal and figurative for Alan Cumming, as he’s informed by the man he has known as his father for his entire life that his mother had had an affair and that another man was responsible for his creation.\u00a0 This was devastating, yet welcome, news for Cumming, as his entire life was thrown for a loop but he was glad to learn that the angry, abusive man he had grown up with was not really his father.\u00a0 When a DNA test confirms that his father was lying, Cumming proves to not be his father’s son by overcoming the abuse he suffered as a child and becoming a happy, mostly well adjusted adult.\u00a0 This was an intriguing journey, even if one is not familiar with Cumming’s work on stage and screen.<\/p>\n

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