Tayari Jones and the Meaning of Kin

Tayari Jones and the Meaning of Kin

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Allegra Goodman, Her Stories, and the Messiness of Family

Allegra Goodman’s latest, This is Not About Us is a treasure. Centered around the Rubenstein family, each chapter examines the Rubensteins from a different lens, a different perspective. The stories are funny, messy, heartbreaking, captivating; all adjectives that describe comple ...  Show more

Belle Burden and the Art of Being Vulnerable

Belle Burden’s Strangers is not your everyday memoir about divorce. After three kids, two decades and two homes, her husband was caught having an affair. When confronted, he walked out, saying that marriage and family were not “for him”. It was not about the other woman nor was i ...  Show more

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