family

Contains eleven short fiction stories in which author Maile Meloy explores the lives of characters caught between innocence and experience, fidelity and desire, and impulse and stability.

Australians Jasper Dean and his father reminisce about their lives, from having a criminal in the family to Jasper's European mother who committed suicide, and the adventures that have taken them to various countries.

Abigail was the last keeper of the house and the last to know the Howland family's secrets. Now in the name of her family, she must take bitter revenge on the small-minded Southern town that shamed them but could not destroy them.

Story of the Stamper family and their struggles in the Oregon timber country.

Uncle Daniel Ponder, who desires to give away his fortune, is the talk of Clay County and a source of vexation for his niece. He marries a seventeen-year old girl who will inherit his fortune. When she disappears, Uncle Daniel is tried for her murder.

Provides a portrait of the conditions and concerns of today's families throughout the world with case studies, maps, and photographs.

Lola Hart is an ordinary girl living a comfortable life in near-future Manhattan, until her family's life falls apart under the pressures of a city and country that is spinning out of control. Faced with the pressures of surviving any way she can, and surrounded by the new language and violence of the streets, Lola metamorphoses into a street-wise hustler.

Leigh prayed that her dreams and Luke's devotion would save her from tragedy even though her foul secret seemed to darken her life.

Dawn searches for a haven for herself and her daughter, Christie, and for her darling Jimmy. Yet a legacy of deceit and betrayal still haunt her.