As trees have roots, we have links with our ancestors.
To a greater extent than we usually assume, their DNA and life experiences live in us, with both beneficial and pathological influences.
Indeed, traumas, unfinished mourning, family secrets and conflicts reverberate from generation to generation, shaping the lives of their descendants.
However, and despite the influences of these transgenerational inheritances, the author reminds us that we are not a simple product of the past, nor just t.