The Forgetting River: A Modern Tale of Survival, Identity, and the Inquisition

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The unexpected and moving story of an American journalist who works to uncover her circle of relatives’s long-buried Jewish ancestry in Spain.

Raised a Catholic in California, New York Times journalist Doreen Carvajal is shocked when she discovers that her background may in truth be connected to conversos from Inquisition-era Spain: Jews who were forced to renounce their faith and convert to Christianity or face torture and death. With vivid childhood memories of Sunday sermons, catechism, and the rosary, Carvajal travels to the centuries-old Andalucian town of Arcos de la Frontera, to investigate her lineage and recuperate her circle of relatives’s original religious heritage.

In Arcos, Carvajal comes to realize that fear remains a legacy of the Inquisition at the side of the cryptic messages left by its sufferers. Back at her childhood home in California, she uncovers papers documenting a circle of relatives of Carvajals who were burned at the stake in the 16th-century territory of Mexico. Could the creator’s circle of relatives history be linked to the hidden history of Arcos? And could the unfortunate Carvajals have been her ancestors?

As she strives to find proof that her circle of relatives had been forced to convert to Christianity six hundred years ago, Carvajal comes to remember that the past flows like a river through time—and that whilst the truth may well be submerged, it is never in point of fact lost.

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