{"product_id":"9781580055581","title":"Blended: Writers on the Stepfamily Experience","description":"95 million adults have a step relationship, according to a 2011 report. That’s 95 million unexpected experiences; 95 million unique perspectives; 95 million laughs, 95 million tears, and 95 million new families.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlended\u003c\/i\u003e explores stepfamilies from the inside out through the perspectives of thirty writers who know what it’s like first hand. Sometimes funny, often poignant, and always deeply personal, the stories in \u003ci\u003eBlended\u003c\/i\u003e capture the essence of stepfamilies in all of their weird and wonderful varieties. The journeys range from the first encounters between new step-relatives, to marriages, honeymoons, daily experiences, and divorces. The diverse voices in \u003ci\u003eBlended\u003c\/i\u003e reflect the realities of today’s world, in which yesterday’s ideas of family structures and types just don’t cut it anymore. Parents, children, siblings, aunts, uncles, grandparents, cousins: all of these relationships change when families are melded into one, and the writers of \u003ci\u003eBlended\u003c\/i\u003e help explore the truth of what these new relationships look like, and, especially, \u003ci\u003efeel\u003c\/i\u003e like. \u003ci\u003eBlended\u003c\/i\u003e offers something for everyone: laughter, wisdom, empathy, and guidance, and, above all, the knowledge that you are not alone.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Da Capo Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47133061644528,"sku":"9781580055581","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781580055581_p0.jpg?v=1763791758","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781580055581","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}