Not All Happy Families Are Nuclear

A new book chronicles experiments in domesticity.

By Mandy Van Deven

In Anna Karenina, Tolstoy wrote "all happy families are alike." He was wrong. In One Big Happy Family: 18 Writers Talk About Polyamory, Open Adoption, Mixed Marriage, Househusbandry, Single Motherhood, and Other Realities of Truly Modern Love (Riverhead, February), we meet 18 families that could not be [RETURN TO ARTICLE]