A Family by Any Other Name

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Filigrane

Année de parution:
2014

ISBN-13: 9781771510554

<p class="book_description"><b>Finalist for a Lambda Literary Award for best LGBT Anthology<br />Winner of a 2015 Silver Independent Publisher Book Award</b></p><p class="book_description">At no other time in history have lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) relationships and families been more visible or numerous. <i>A Family by Any Other Name</i> recognizes and celebrates this advance by exploring what &#8220;family&#8221; means to people today. The anthology includes a wide range of perspectives on queer relationships and families&#8212;there are stories on coming out, same-sex marriage, adopting, having biological kids, polyamorous relationships, families without kids, divorce, and dealing with the death of a spouse, as well as essays by straight writers about having a gay parent or child. These personal essays are by turns funny, provocative, and intelligent, but all are moving and honest. Including writers from across North America, this collection offers honest and moving real-life stories about relationships and creating families in the twenty-first century.</p><p>The fifth book in a series of books about the twenty-first-century family, <i>A Family by Any Other Name</i> follows <i>How to Expect What You&#8217;re Not Expecting</i>, <i>Somebody&#8217;s Child</i>, <i>Nobody&#8217;s Mother</i>, and <i>Nobody&#8217;s Father</i>, all essay collections that challenge readers to re-examine traditional definitions of &#8220;family.&#8221;</p><p><b>Lambda Literary Awards Finalist for Best LGBT Anthology</b></p>&#10;<div>At no other time in history have lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) relationships and families been more visible or numerous. This anthology recognizes and celebrates this moment by exploring what the idea of &#8220;family&#8221; means to people today, through personal essays about the broad range of relationships they create. <i>A Family by Any Other Name</i> features stories about coming out of the closet and dating, marriage and parenting, and divorce and coping with the death of a spouse. The essays are by turns funny, provocative, and intelligent, but all are moving and honest. Including a wide range of perspectives on queer relationships and families &#8212; there are essays on coming out, same-sex marriage, adopting, having biological kids, polyamorous relationships, families without kids, divorce, and dealing with the death of a spouse, as well as essays by straight writers about having a gay parent or child &#8212; in one book, this collection offers honest and moving real-life stories about relationships and creating families in the 21st century.</div>