Harriet Lovatt's life is torn apart when she gives birth to Ben, an insatiably hungry, abnormally strong, brutal child, who she cannot bear to leave in an institution, but whose presence in her home terrorizes her husband and other four children.
Sybil, determined to learn the truth about the mysterious and perilous journey her grandfather forced his three teenage sons to undertake at the beginning of the twentieth century, makes discoveries that force her to change the way she thinks about herself, her family, and her country.
A memoir in which author Bobbie Ann Mason tells the story of her Kentucky farm family and the challenges she and her parents and grandparents faced when the changing world intruded on their rural life.
A young woman, cousin to the late Billy Lynch who has just died of alcoholism, traces the story of his lost love, discovering her own father's role in trying to keep Billy from being hurt by the truth about Eva, and contemplating the effect her father's lie had on the rest of the family.
Cavalry soldier Scranton Roy sets the stage for generations of family patterns when he abandons his post during a raid on a peaceful Ojibwa village to chase after a dog carrying a baby strapped to its back, and settles down with the child in frontier Minnesota.
A family of men live together in a seedy house in North London. Into this slightly sinister atmosphere the eldest son brings his wife Ruth for a visit.
Social history of the twentieth century, traces the influence of industrialization, religion, war, migration, education and advances in medicine on the daily life.
Describes a family's struggle to get their mother properly buried, while they encounter catastrophes of flood and fire, as well as the chaos of their own feelings.
