If you don’t know who Pierre Belliveau is… don’t beat yourself up, neither did I. Perhaps because the novel is written by Bruce Murray, one of Belliveau’s direct descendants, it felt all the more special to read.

It’s All Relative, a book about genealogy, is not something I would have picked up if it wasn’t infused with something else. A.J. Jacobs filled it with loads of humor, great stories and a mission to create a Global Family Reunion. You are basically along for the ride as Jacobs writes about his own family history, the people he meets along the way and the grand finally of the Global Family Reunion.