Out of Line

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Thirty-nine talented writers join us to explore through poetry fiction and memoir what it means in this day and age to explore the intricacies of the adoptive half step and in-law conditions from every position-parents children grandchildren grandparents uncles aunts-and what it means for those many of us who oscillate between these conditions often ­­­in more than one family constellation. Are families so important to us because that is where the experience of belonging originates-or where we're </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>told</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> it should? Historically the biologically nuclear family has been our norm. But it's no longer that straightforward. . . just ask around. We did-and have learned a great deal about the many permutations of belonging and family.</span></p>