One of the things that's important about family is the narrative history they create for themselves.
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Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.
History is very much bound up in family experience.
Families always stay the same, but they always provide more stories.
The thing that interests me most about family history is the gap between the things we think we know about our families and the realities.
Family tends to be one of the recurring themes in my fiction.
Family is this very deep, complex thing that for most people becomes everything. It informs your entire life.
My stories are fundamentally about the love of family.
The most successful families embrace and elevate their family history, particularly their failures, setbacks and other missteps.
With family dramas, it's hard to keep those stories alive.
There is a common theme, though, in the stories I have told, which are usually associations of characters or families that are formed outside of a family circle.
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