After the birth of her daughter, Majella discovers the diary of her ancestor Ginny who tells a story of murder when Ginny had fled the famine of her country and settled in New York, and Majella sets out to explore Ginny's past, where she discovers the truth of her family.
Despite her parents' divorce, her father's coming out as gay, and his plans to marry his boyfriend, ten-year-old Bea is reassured by her parents' unconditional love, excited about getting a stepsister, and haunted by something she did last summer at her father's lake house.
Lonnie grows up caught in the middle of his beloved grandfather Homer Bannon, an old-time cattleman dedicated to the values of honesty and decency, and Hud, Homer's unscrupulous stepson.
The Stone twins leave Lunar City in a secondhand spaceship with the whole family aboard. What begins as a simple business expedition to Mars soon mushrooms into a dangerous situation.
Simple text and color photographs examine elements of families, including parents, brothers and sisters, grandparents, aunts and uncles, cousins, role models, and more.
Presents seven hypothetical scenarios and two essays in which Swiss psychoanalyst Alice Miller explores the ways in which people's lives are affected by their families and the emotions and events of childhood.
