Temporary Family

By Hratchya Hayents

At Thanksgiving, ten-year-old Caleb asks why the whole family gets together only once a year.

Someone asks for the salt.

Martin has spent decades designing homes and promising to make time later. At sixty-one, he runs an architecture firm, answers calls he could ignore, and knows how to make himself useful. Making himself available is harder.

Now his daughter Rachel's marriage is ending, and Caleb is learning to keep track of three homes, three toothbrushes, and the adults who decide where he sleeps. Martin's wife, Diane, wants time that has not already been given to work. His eighty-four-year-old mother, Rose, wants company without being treated as an emergency. And Chris, a young man trying to rebuild his life, needs a chance that Martin may not know how to give.

As familiar routines begin to shift, the family makes room for new partners, difficult choices, and one another. There are missed calls, borrowed tools, red shoes, an old dining table-and small moments nobody thought to put on the calendar.

With quiet humor and tenderness, Temporary Family follows three generations learning how to stay close while their lives move in different directions.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HMGB46S3
• ISBN13: 9798182869522
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Oxford Book Writers
• Length: 106 Pages
• Weight: 0.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"