Family: A Celebration
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ISBN: 1560794682 / Publisher: Petersons, November 1995
A collection of short stories, poetry, and essays by such writers as Nikki Giovanni, Garnette Mullis, Al Maginnes, and Bobbie Su Nadal consider the special relationships within families
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Words and photographs come together in this beautifully crafted work to explore the many shapes, sizes, and accents of the American family today. Margaret Campbell's selection of short stories, poetry, and essays by both notable and emerging writers and original photographs by Joan Beard of families across the United States affirm the power and endurance of the human spirit.Joan Beard's intimate photographs describe the many fragments that make up the modern family, a mosaic of complex and varied relationships. They help us see the common threads that hold people together.Family is indeed a celebration: a celebration of the bonds between mother and daughter, grandparent and child, husband and wife, father and son, distant relations, and friends often closer than blood relatives - those circles of people who make up our most important world.
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