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

by Walker, Rebecca

• ISBN13: 9781594488627
• ISBN10: 1594488622
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-02-19
• Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover

Summary

Edited by bestselling author Walker, this anthology invites readers to step into the center of a range of different domestic arrangements. In a collection of 18 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.

Author Biography

Named by Time magazine as one of the most influential leaders of her generation, Rebecca Walker has received numerous awards and accolades for her writing and activism. In addition to the bestselling memoir 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, a standard text in gender studies courses around the world, and What Makes a Man: 22 Writers Imagine the Future.