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The older I get, the more important my view of the family is.

A lot of what I'm obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father.

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.

I've always been fascinated by family ancestry.

I'm endlessly fascinated with the ways families work and the ways they don't.

A 'good' family, it seems, is one that used to be better.

What I do know is that I love the whole idea of family, even the word itself.

As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.

I find families intriguing, perhaps because I did not grow up in one. I was raised by a feminist, independent, single mother, a divorcee.