Real Family Stories
While family is defined very broadly in all of these it is still at heart of these stories.
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Here If You Need Me by Kate Braestrup
- All Over But the Shoutin' by Rick Bragg
- Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson
- Manhood for Amateurs: the pleasures and regrets of a husband, father, and son by Michael Chabon (review)
- Not Even Wrong: adventures in autism by Paul Collins
- Zeitoun by Dave Eggers ( review)
- Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: an African childhood by Alexandra Fuller.
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The Longest Trip Home by John Grogan (review)
- The Speckled People by Hugo Hamilton
- Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: a memoir of going home by Rhoda Janzen
- I am Hutterite: the fascinating true story of a young woman's journey to reclaim her heritage by Mary-Ann Kirkby (review)
- Annie’s Ghosts: a journey into a family secret by Steve Luxenberg
- The Color of Water: a Black man's tribute to his white mother by James McBride
- The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore ( review)
- Extraordinary,
Ordinary People : a memoir of family by Condoleezza Rice
- The Face of a Naked Lady: an Omaha family mystery by Michael Rips
- Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (review)
- Three Weeks With My Brother by Nicholas Sparks
- Objects of Our Affection : uncovering my family's past, one chair, pistol, and pickle fork at a time by Lisa Tracy
- The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
- The Kids Are All Right : a memoir by Diana Welch and Liz Welch
- A Homemade Life by Molly Wizenberg ( review)
- I’m Down by Mishna Wolff (review)
- The Girls from Ames: a story of women and a forty-year friendship by Jeffrey Zaslow ( review)
