Pepita is afraid that her report about her family members may not be interesting, but she ultimately realizes that all of them play an important role in her life.
Four generations of an American family living under one roof, including Gordon, who thinks he's losing his mind, and his wife Jean, devastated by her lover's suicide, each look for meaning in all the wrong places.
Offers a history of family and marriage issues in the United States, along with statistical charts of past and present attitudes and a discussion of working mothers, divorce, aging parents, and alternative families.
