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This Memorial Day, catch up on Atlantic stories about an AncestryDNA test that revealed a medical secret, why public pools are in decline, 24 books to get lost in this summer, and more.
Your Reading List
A Woman’s AncestryDNA Test Revealed a Medical Secret
As a cancer patient, she had received cord-blood cells from an anonymous donor. The DNA from those cells led her to him. (From 2019)
By Sarah Zhang
The Decline of America’s Public Pools
As summers get hotter, public pools help people stay cool. Why are they so neglected?
By Eve Andrews
24 Books to Get Lost in This Summer
The Atlantic’s writers and editors have chosen fiction and nonfiction to match all sorts of moods.
The Atlantic Culture Desk
On my first time out as a commercial fisherman, my boat sank, my captain died, and I was left adrift and alone in the Pacific.
By Alec Frydman
$350,000 a Year, and Just Getting By
Financial confessionals reveal that income inequality and geographic inequality have normalized absurd spending patterns. (From 2019)
By Annie Lowrey
The Wrong Way to Motivate Your Kid
When children fall short, many parents’ instinct is to take away something they love. That’s the wrong impulse.
By Russell Shaw
P.S.
Read “I Remember,” the latest poem by William H. McRaven, a retired Navy admiral and the former commander of U.S. Special Operations Command:
“I remember their faces. / I cannot forget their faces.”
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