At 88, historian David Levering Lewis, a biographer of W.E.B. DuBois, has filled in gaps in his knowledge of his own family line, and he takes readers along on the journey.

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Heartbeat Opera specializes in daring reductions of the classics, and this may be its most implausible undertaking yet.