We all have an imaginary definition of a great family. We imagine
what it would be like to belong to such a family. No fights over
the holidays. No getting on one another's nerves. Respect for
individual identity. Mutual support, without being intrusive. So
many people believe they are disqualified from having a better
family experience, primarily because they compare their own family
with the mythic ideal, and their reality falls short. Is that a
fair standard to judge against?"
In the pages of "Why Do I Love These People?," Po Bronson takes us
on an extraordinary journey.
It begins on a river in Texas, where a mother gets trapped
underwater and has to bargain for her own life and that of her
kids.
Then, a father and his daughter return to their tiny rice-growing
village in China, hoping to rekindle their love for each other
inside the walls of his childhood home.
Next, a son puts forth a riddle, asking us to understand what his
first experience of God has to do with his Mexican American mother.
Every step- and every family- on this journey is real.
Calling upon his gift for powerful nonfiction narrative and
philosophical insight, Bronson explores the incredibly complicated
feelings that we have for our families. Each chapter introduces us
to two people- a father and his son, a daughter and her mother, a
wife and her husband- and we come to know them as intimately as
characters in a novel, following the story of their relationship as
they struggle resiliently through the kinds of hardships all
families endure.
Some of the people manage to save their relationship, while others
find a better life only after letting therelationship go. From
their efforts, the wisdom in this book emerges. We are left feeling
emotionally raw but grounded- and better prepared to love, through
both hard times and good time.
In these twenty mesmerizing stories, we discover what is essential
and elemental to all families and, in doing so, slowly abolish the
fantasies and fictions we have about those we fight to stay
connected to.
In "Why Do I Love These People?," Bronson shows us that we are
united by our yearnings and aspirations: Family is not our dividing
line, but our common ground.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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