One Big Happy Family: 18 Writers Talk about Open Adoption, Mixed Marriage, Polyamory, Househusbandry, Single Motherhood, and Other Realities

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More important and timely than ever-a collection of illuminating essays on the shifting definition of the modern American family.

Edited by bestselling writer Rebecca ...

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One Big, Happy Family: Introducing the New American Family

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Overview

More important and timely than ever-a collection of illuminating essays on the shifting definition of the modern American family.

Edited by bestselling writer Rebecca Walker, this fascinating exploration of today's American family features essays by prominent voices such as Z.Z. Packer, Dan Savage, Min Jin Lee, Asha Bandele, Neal Pollack, and others, on subjects such as:

• Open marriage
• Gay Marriage
• Green-card marriage
• Interclass Marriage
• Prison marriage
• Househusbands
• Open adoption
• Transracial adoption
• Sperm donation
• Single motherhood
• Polyamory
• Living with in-laws
• Parenting a disabled child
• Bisexual marriage
• Divorce Blended Families
• Bicultural families
• Relationships with child-care providers
• Multiracial families
• Home schooling
• Equal parenting
• Expatriate families

An unabashed celebration of love in all its diversity and complexity, One Big Happy Family is destined to become a definitive text on the modern American family.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781594484377
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
  • Publication date: 2/2/2010
  • Pages: 288
  • Sales rank: 635,829
  • Product dimensions: 5.10 (w) x 7.90 (h) x 0.80 (d)

Meet the Author

Rebecca Walker has received numerous awards and accolades for her writing and activism. Her work has appeared in many anthologies and publications; in addition to the international bestseller Black, White, and Jewish, her books include Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence, and the anthologies To Be Real: Telling the Truth and Changing the Face of Feminism, which has become a standard text in gender studies courses around the world, and What Makes a Man: 22 Writers Imagine the Future. A popular speaker at universities and in business settings, Walker teaches the art of memoir at workshops and writing conferences internationally. She lives in Hawaii.

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Table of Contents

Introduction ix

1 And Then We Were Poly Jenny Block 1

2 Woman Up asha bandefe 17

3 The Enemy Within Dan Savage 29

4 Foreign Relations Suzanne Kamata 37

5 Counting on Cousins Amy Anderson 61

6 The Look ZZ Packer 73

7 Like Family Min Jin Lee 79

8 Daddy Donoring Antonio Caya 97

9 Two Red Lines Susan McKinneyde Ortega 108

10 My First Husband Liza Monroy 123

11 Home Atone Together Neal Pollack 139

12 Love, Money, and the Unmarried Couple Judith Levine 150

13 Unassisted Sasha Hom 165

14 Sharing Madison Dawn Friedman 178

15 Half the Work, All the Fun Marc Amy Vachon 190

16 How Homeschooling Made Our Family More of What We Wanted It to Be Paula Penn-Nabrit 206

17 Till Life Do Us Part Meredith Maran 224

18 This Old House Rebecca Barry 239

Acknowledgments 255

Credits 257

About the Contributors 259

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