num_pages: 205
description: Tender, unsettling, and amusing, these stories present families all unhappy in their own different ways. A mother who presides over her local Parents of Lesbians and Gays chapter has trouble accepting her son's lover. A recently separated couple's compulsion to maintain a twenty-six-year tradition seems to magnify futility. The New York Times called this collection "astonishing - funny, eloquent, and wise."
language: English
title: Family Dancing: Stories
titlecomplete: Family Dancing: Stories
genres: Short Stories, Americana, Literary Fiction, LGBT, Queer, Gay, The United States Of America, Gay Fiction, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 1502
awards: awardedAt: 473414400000
name: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, awardedAt: 441792000000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Mariner Books