Intimate Worlds: How Families Thrive and Why They Fail

In INTIMATE WORLDS, bestselling author Maggie Scarf takes on the most important and most universal subject of her distinguished career: the family. In this luminous, beautifully written book, Scarf brilliantly examines the complex ways in which families create their own intimate rules and patterns of interaction, and how by understanding these dynamics we can each improve the quality of our own family life.

At the book's core are the stories of four fascinating families and the different ways they enact the central issues of family life. As Maggie Scarf probes the motives and meanings of their compelling dramas, she reveals the essential truth of how families fundamentally shape human identity. A major work, INTIMATE WORLDS both clarifies and deepens our knowledge of family relationships.