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One big happy family : 18 writers talk about open adoption, mixed marriage, polyamory, househusbandry, single motherhood, and other realities of truly modern love / edited and with an introduction by Rebecca Walker.

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New York : Riverhead Books, 2010.

Families -- United States.

Social values -- United States.

9781594484377 (paperback) :

xvii, 283 p. ; 21 cm.

First Riverhead trade paperback edition.

And then we were poly / Jenny Block -- Woman up / Asha Bandele -- The enemy within / Dan Savage -- Foreign relations / Suzanne Kamata -- Counting on cousins / Amy Anderson -- The look / ZZ Packer -- Like family / Min Jin Lee -- Daddy donoring / Antonio Caya -- Two red lines / Susan McKinney de Ortega -- My first husband / Liza Monroy -- Home alone together / Neal Pollack -- Love, money, and the unmarried couple / Judith Levine -- Unassisted / Sasha Hom -- Sharing Madison / Dawn Friedman -- Half the work, all the fun / Marc and Amy Vachon -- How homeschooling made our family more of what we wanted it to be / Paula Penn-Nabrit -- Till life do us part / Meredith Maran -- This old house / Rebecca Barry.

"Edited by bestselling author Rebecca Walker, this anthology invites us to step into the center of a range of different domestic arrangements and take a good look around. From gay adoption to absentee fathers, from open marriages to green-card marriages, the reality of the American household has altered dramatically over the last three decades. With changing values and expectations, fluid gender roles, and a shifting economy, along with increase in infertility, adoption, and the incidence of mixed-race couples, people across the country are redefining the standard arrangement of family life. In a collection of eighteen honest, personal, and deeply affecting essays from an array of writers, One Big Happy Family offers a fresh look at how contemporary families are adapting to this altering reality." ... from Publisher's Description.

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