{"product_id":"9780979655234","title":"Families","description":"FAMILIES: THE FRONTLINE OF PLURALISM\u003cbr\u003eHeather Tosteson and Charles D. Brockett, Editors\u003cbr\u003eWising Up Press\u003cp\u003eThe difficulties of living up close and personal with diversity-of sensibility, race, sexual orientation, culture, class, or religion-is the subject of the stories, memoirs, and poetry in this anthology.\u003cbr\u003e In these works by thirty-five contemporary writers we learn what it means to absorb the intimate implications of being of mixed race, to be raised by a parent who suffers from being on the wrong side of history, to carry the burden of immigrant parents' self-sacrifice. \u003cbr\u003e We learn what it means to fully live out choices to marry across religion or culture, to hear our children chatter happily in a language we can't speak, to feel our imagination try to find its way into a world completely alien to us, still raw with the wounds of civil war.\u003cbr\u003e We learn about the tension-and love-that develop between siblings when one is disabled; the violence that carries across marriages; what it means to create relationships with children after divorce, or to make a space in our own heart for the children of step-children. \u003cbr\u003e We learn how completely parenthood shifts our priorities, whether we are lesbian parents adopting children from Guatemala, a single mother expanding her family of two with another child from China, a lesbian mother shifting sexual orientation to create a stable family clan, a white poet fostering a black child from an inner-city ghetto.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wising Up Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50022749110512,"sku":"9780979655234","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780979655234","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}