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Sometimes in a split-second, implusive decision you can pick up a book that is exactly what you are supposed to be reading at the very moment in your life. Sometimes you find a book that you are ready to listen to, even though you wouldn’t normally be open to what it has to say to you. You don’t, as usual, ignore the importance of the messages it contains. You find the book just when you can use it most.
For me, now is that sometime.
Families are something we all struggle with, not matter how “good” or “bad” our upbringing and current situation. There are conflicts and tensions so tightly interwoven with our psyches that some never know what are their own ideas and what is their reaciton to their family. Creating our own families is likely the only thing scarier than dealing with the ones we already have. Particularly if we feel insufficiently prepared, as most of us do.
Delving into these issues, this book addresses the question what is family? And not surprisingly it does not give any answers.
