Black Sheep and Kissing Cousins: How Family Stories Shape Us

by Elizabeth Stone

Book Overview

When someone says, at a holiday dinner table, "Oh, those Lawrence cousins lose control all the time," or "the Davises always had more talent than luck," you can be sure there's a lesson being passed... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140119779
• ISBN13: 9780140119770
• Release Date: June 1989
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

Great stories...easy read

This book contains a lot of great stories. The sequence of how and why the family stories are told are very interesting. Quick read and will leave you thinking...

A New Look At The Family

I found this book to be most interesting because it made me think about my own family stories in an entirely new way. Why do we care about certain traits, how we define ourselves, what measures success - the answers are buried in those family stories - the ones we choose to retell, that is. I have used this book in classes, as well as in rethinking my own family. Fun, and thought provoking.