One big happy family
Subtitle: 18 writers talk about open adoption, mixed marriage, polyamory, househusbandry, single motherhood, and other realities of truly modern love
By: edited and with an introduction by Rebecca Walker
Edition: 1st Riverhead trade pbk. ed.
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9781594484377
Subjects: Social values; Families
Description: "Edited by bestselling author Rebecca Walker, this anthology invites us to step into the center of a range of different domestic arrangements and take a good look around. From gay adoption to absentee fathers, from open marriages to green-card marriages, the reality of the American household has altered dramatically over the last three decades. With changing values and expectations, fluid gender roles, and a shifting economy, along with increase in infertility, adoption, and the incidence of mixed-race couples, people across the country are redefining the standard arrangement of family life. In a collection of eighteen honest, personal, and deeply affecting essays from an array of writers, One Big Happy Family offers a fresh look at how contemporary families are adapting to this altering reality." ... from Publisher's Description.
Table of contents: title: And then we were poly  -- Jenny Block; title: Woman up  -- Asha Bandele; title: The enemy within  -- Dan Savage; title: Foreign relations  -- Suzanne Kamata; title: Counting on cousins  -- Amy Anderson; title: The look  -- ZZ Packer; title: Like family  -- Min Jin Lee; title: Daddy donoring  -- Antonio Caya; title: Two red lines  -- Susan McKinney de Ortega; title: My first husband  -- Liza Monroy; title: Home alone together  -- Neal Pollack; title: Love, money, and the unmarried couple  -- Judith Levine; title: Unassisted  -- Sasha Hom; title: Sharing Madison  -- Dawn Friedman; title: Half the work, all the fun  -- Marc and Amy Vachon; title: How homeschooling made our family more of what we wanted it to be  -- Paula Penn-Nabrit; title: Till life do us part  -- Meredith Maran; title: This old house -- Rebecca Barry.