Family Relationships

Image of Keeping Family Secrets: Shame and Silence in Memoirs from the 1950s
Author(s):
Margaret K. Nelson
Genre(s):
History, Anthropology, LGBTQ+, Family Relationships

Keeping Family Secrets: Shame and Silence in Memoirs from the 1950s

November 22, 2022
Reviewed by: 
Jane Haile

“food for thought as to how much things have changed, and how much they have stayed the same, or in some cases appear to be returning.”

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Image of Daddy Issues: Love and Hate in the Time of Patriarchy
Author(s):
Katherine Angel
Genre(s):
Women’s Studies, U.S. Society and Culture, Current/Public Affairs & Events, Family Relationships, Psychology

Daddy Issues: Love and Hate in the Time of Patriarchy

June 20, 2022
Reviewed by: 
Roberta E. Winter

Daddy Issues: Love and Hate in the Time of Patriarchy is brief and refreshing for what it is NOT, a feminist treatise on paternalism and the female dynamic.

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Image of The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation
Author(s):
Anna Malaika Tubbs
Genre(s):
Black & African American, Biography, Autobiography & Memoir, History, Biography, Autobiography & Memoir, Social Activists, History, U.S., 20th Century, Political Activism, Psychology, Family Relationships

The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation

March 9, 2021
Reviewed by: 
Karen R. Koenig

“The Three Mothers is a tribute to and celebration of Black motherhood from the late 1800s to the present.”

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Image of Leave Out the Tragic Parts: A Grandfather's Search for a Boy Lost to Addiction
Author(s):
Dave Kindred
Genre(s):
Biography, Autobiography & Memoir, Family Relationships, Family Memoir, Addiction & Substance Abuse

Leave Out the Tragic Parts: A Grandfather's Search for a Boy Lost to Addiction

February 19, 2021
Reviewed by: 
Laura Schultz

“If being told you’d kill yourself was not hitting bottom, what was? That changed nothing. He had been run over by a car. That changed nothing. He had been beaten until his brain bled.

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Image of Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
Author(s):
Mary L. Trump PhD
Genre(s):
Family Memoir, Presidents & Heads of State, Politics & Politicians, U.S., Psychology, Family Relationships, Disorders

Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man

July 20, 2020
Reviewed by: 
Karen R. Koenig

“. . . this book is a remarkably compassionate story of emotional family horror from which neither uncle nor niece could easily escape.”

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Image of Stray: A Memoir
Author(s):
Stephanie Danler
Genre(s):
Biography, Autobiography & Memoir, Women’s Studies, Family Relationships

Stray: A Memoir

June 9, 2020
Reviewed by: 
Paul LaRosa

People never disappoint, at least in terms of how complicated their lives are and what they might reveal if we listen closely enough.

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Image of It's All Relative: Adventures Up and Down the World's Family Tree
Author(s):
A. J. Jacobs
Genre(s):
Family Relationships, Family Memoir

It's All Relative: Adventures Up and Down the World’s Family Tree

December 11, 2017
Reviewed by: 
Robert S. Davis

“It's All Relative uses humor to discuss sex, paternity, hereditary organizations, privacy, twins, black sheep, evolution, and the import

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Image of Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir
Author(s):
Christopher Buckley
Genre(s):
Humor, Grief & Bereavement, Family Relationships, Family Memoir

Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir

October 1, 2010
Reviewed by: 
Joseph Arellano

According to his only child, Christopher, William F.

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