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9780765805881

Black Sheep and Kissing Cousins: How Our Family Stories Shape Us

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  • ISBN13:

    9780765805881

  • ISBN10:

    076580588X

  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 2004-05-31
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

Family stories have a secret power: they play a unique role in shaping our identity, our sense of our place in the world. The give us values, inspirations, warnings, incentives. We need them. We use them. We keep them. They reverberate throughout our lives, affecting our choices in love, work, friendship, and lifestyle. Elizabeth Stone, whose grandparents came from Italy to Brooklyn, artfully weaves her own family stories among the stories of more than a hundred people of all backgrounds, ages, and regions—clarifying for us predictable types of family legends, providing ways to interpret our own stories and their roles in our lives. She examines stories of birth, death, work, money, romantic adventure—all in the context of the family storytelling ritual. And she shows how stories about our most ancient ancestors may provide answers at milestone moments in our lives, as well as how stories about our newest family members carve out places for them so they will fit into their families, comfortably or otherwise.

Table of Contents

Transaction Introduction ix
Acknowledgments xxv
Introduction 3(12)
PART I FAMILY STORIES AND THE FAMILY
Family Ground Rules
15(17)
Family Definitions
32(16)
Family Monuments
48(27)
Underground Rules
75(21)
Family Myths
96(15)
PART II FAMILY STORIES AND THE WORLD
The Pecking Order and How To Survive It
111(35)
Of Money, Self-Worth, and Lost Fortunes
146(19)
PART III FAMILY STORIES AND THE INDIVIDUAL
Legacies
165(31)
Fairy Godmothers and Patron Saints
196(24)
In Pursuit of Freedom
220(25)
Notes 245

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