A powerful, ambitious memoir of family secrets, destructive faith, and all-consuming fire It Runs in the Family is a memoir of faith and willful ignorance, truths and secrets, rural and urban labor, and fire: fire as both knowledge and destructive force.Richard Manning was raised on a piece of farmland in Michigan, in a family of working people and Christian fundamentalists. Manning's father was a jack of many trades: farmer, carpenter, builder, power...