family relationships

Four out of five people in David Lovelace's immediate family have experienced bipolar disorder---including David himself.

By turns heart-tugging and hilarious, Myron Uhlberg's memoir tells the story of growing up as the hearing son of deaf parents--and his life in a world that he found unaccountably beautiful, even as he longed to escape it.

The author recalls the weeks and months following the death of her husband of forty years and the severe illness of their only daughter, and discusses the changes that occurred in her life as a result.

Betty DeGeneres tells the story of her acceptance of the fact that her daughter is gay. As the first, nongay spokesperson for the Human Rights Campaign's National Coming Out Project, she shares the painful and inspiring stories she has heard on the road and speaks of her own complicated path to acceptance and the deepening of her friendship with her daughter.

A story written when Isabel Allende's daughter became gravely ill. Bizarre ancestors and delightful and bitter childhood memories are woven together to create a powerful autobiography.

Kelly Corrigan recounts her battle with breast cancer, which occurred at the same time her father was diagnosed with prostate cancer, and intermixes stories about her childhood and her unique relationship with her father.

Using real-life accounts, describes some of the experiences faced by teenage girls who suffer from anorexia nervosa.

American screenwriter John Sacret Young reflects upon the relationships between himself, his father, his cousin Doug, and his uncle George, describing their lives in Massachusetts in the 1960s and 1970s and examining the impact of alcoholism, shifting memory, and, particularly, Doug's death in the Vietnam War on their family.