Family Feeling by Jean Ross Justice is now available from the University of Iowa Press.

This novella and collection of stories is a moving portrait of American domestic life of the last half-century. Often spanning generations, the stories are defined by subtle shifts in both family relationships and the ways in which we reconfigure them in memory and mind.

Many of the stories revolve around end-of-life scenes. An elderly man is visited by his middle-aged son’s young second wife and child, whom the son has temporarily abandoned in order to tend to his dying ex-wife. A recently widowed woman faces a complicated relationship with a troubled home health-care worker who had been uncommonly kind to her dying husband. Four middle-aged siblings reconvene in their childhood home to attend to the death of their father and find themselves simultaneously children of, and parents to, their own parents.

The book is available at bookstores or from the UI Press, 800-621-2736 or from the UI Press website. Customers in Europe, the Middle East, or Africa may order from the Eurospan Group website.