'Why Do I Love These People?': Understanding, Surviving, and Creating Your Own Family
Po Bronson
Häftad
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In the pages of "Why Do I Love These People?," Po Bronson takes us on an extraordinary journey.
It begins on a river in Texas, where a mother gets trapped underwater and has to bargain for her own life and that of her kids.
Then, a father and his daughter return to their tiny rice-growing village in China, hoping to rekindle their love for each other inside the walls of his childhood home.
Next, a son puts forth a riddle, asking us to understand what his first experience of God has to do with his Mexican American mother.
Every step-and every family-on this journey is real.
Calling upon his gift for powerful nonfiction narrative and philosophical insight, Bronson explores the incredibly complicated feelings that we have for our families. Each chapter introduces us to two people-a father and his son, a daughter and her mother, a wife and her husband-and we come to know them as intimately as characters in a novel, following the story of their relationship as they struggle resiliently through the kinds of hardships all families endure.
Some of the people manage to save their relationship, while others find a better life only after letting the relationship go. From their efforts, thewisdom in this book emerges. We are left feeling emotionally raw but grounded-and better prepared to love, through both hard times and good time.
In these twenty mesmerizing stories, we discover what is essential and elemental to all families and, in doing so, slowly abolish
- Format: Häftad
- ISBN: 9780812972429
- Språk: Engelska
- Antal sidor: 400
- Utgivningsdatum: 2006-12-01
- Förlag: Random House Group