🦃 Family Stories Month

We all have families, whether ones we were born into, or ones we have created on our own, and we all have family stories. Happy stories and sad stories, angry stories and funny stories, it is almost as though our stories are the fabric of our families--the pieces that we stitch together to make our family tapestry. Families create their own languages, short-hands, inside jokes, that outsiders do not catch or understand fully. The month of November is about these languages and the stories that they weave throughout time--bonding, fighting, losing, and gaining.

In the memoir Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother Daughter Journey to the Sacred Places of Greece, Turkey & France, writer Sue Monk Kidd and her daughter Ann recount their expedition together to find themselves and each other. Another mother-daughter memoir, Isabel Allende's Paula was written when her daughter Paula became ill and fell into a coma, starting Allende on writing the story of their family for her daughter. 

If you prefer fiction, The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan delves into the history of China and the future of her daughters in modern America. Or dive into Ian McEwan's Atonement, about a misunderstanding that has devastating consequences for a family. 

From Angela's Ashes to The Dutch House, we have stories threaded throughout our collection that go to the heart of what family stories mean. All family stories are worth telling.