A Family Across Town: My Father's Double Life, A Memoir

For readers drawn to complex family narratives, a contemporary memoir about uncovering a life-altering family secret.

A Family Across Town is a memoir about secrecy, legacy, and the long shadow of a father’s hidden life. Aynah Askanas and her siblings grew up in a Los Angeles suburb with a pediatrician father whose frequent absences were explained away as "hospital emergency calls." Only in adulthood did they learn the truth: for decades, their father had maintained a second family across to...