Topic

extended family

2 pieces, newest first.

Aug 30Relations

Nobody Wants to Host Thanksgiving Anymore

The woman who has hosted for eleven years would like to stop. Her sister would like her to keep going. Nobody in this family has ever decided who hosts — it settled, the way water settles, and the settling has a structure that every extended family in America will recognise.

The Long EntryRosa Delgado5 min

Aug 3Relations

Kin-Keeping: The Job Nobody in Your Family Applied For

Somebody remembers the birthdays, books the flights, tells the cousins about the diagnosis and keeps two branches of a family on speaking terms. In eleven extended families, it was one person — and in nine of them, nobody had ever said thank you for it.

Rosa Delgado4 min