Families Author:Jane Howard Tribes and clans and families are what this book is all about. This is a book about the connections of chance and the connections of choice, and the ways in which these connections can govern and bless and sometimes cripple our lives. This book marvels at families' protean endurance and denies the widespread rumor of their death. — As many millio... more »ns of clans and families all over America are celebrating, quarreling, disbanding, reuniting, and enduring, Jane Howard makes us realize how our lives are interwoven both with the families we are born to and with those we invent--and we must invent them--as we go along. "Families" is compassionate, provocative, and profound.« less