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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 more different from one another, each demonstrating that healthy families come in a variety… return to article

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