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The Man Who Stole Einstein’s Brain
The Man Who Stole Einstein’s Brain, a riveting documentary based on Carolyn’s book, Possessing Genius, recently premiered at the Toronto HotDoc’s film festival. Riffing off Possessing Genius, the doc has been brewing ever since Carolyn first met Tom Harvey – the...
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Can DNA solve a family mystery – or two?
Long before she wrote The Juggler’s Children, Carolyn Abraham was simply a kid who couldn’t tell her friends where her family came from: it took too long to explain. A child of colour, three continents, and, it seemed, too many countries to list, she would frequently ask...
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Possessing Genius: The Bizarre Odyssey of Einstein’s Brain
Carolyn’s first book had little to do with the new developments in science. Instead, it was the culmination of a very old story. In 1999, she learned that the brain of Albert Einstein had been delivered to McMaster University for anatomical studies after rumbling over the...
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"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance."
George Bernard Shaw
The Journey
From the Pages
The Genes that Bind Us
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Albert and Ena Abraham, my paternal grandparents, after arriving in England from India...
My siblings and me on holiday in the English countryside before leaving for Canada in...
My great-grandfather, The Captain, Frederick William Crooks Sr., produced at some point...
Mum and Dad as newlyweds in Sefton Park, Liverpool, 1953. Share...
My parents flanking Aunty Julie in her garden in 1958. In the front row, cousin Marion...
My maternal grandparents, Freddie and Gladys Crooks, enjoying cocktails on my...
“This has been here since I was a boy,” my father said happily, patting its trunk like...
It’s not the Portuguese influence that dazzles along the shore at Fort Kochi. As we...
We spent most of our days at the Santa Cruz Basilica. All through its history the church...
We hunched over practically illegible record books, sweating next to a moody fan and...