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Illustrates the range and depth of essays exploring the importance of family and ancestors. Essays by the following writers are included : Benjamin Franklin, Simone de Beauvoir, Anna Quindlen, John Edgar Wideman, Brent Staples, Doris Lessing, Eudora Welty, Cynthia Ozick, Sherwood Anderson, Scott Russell Sanders, Raymond Carver, Richard Rodriguez, Francis Bacon, Robert Louis Stevenson, Daniel Defoe, Katherine Anne Porter, Michel de Montaigne, Charles Lamb, W.E.B. Du Bois, Barbara Lazear Ascher, Nancy Mairs, Michael Dorris, Louise Erdrich, William Dean Howells, Barry Lopez, Connie Young Yu, Mary McCarthy, William Butler Yeats, Joan Didion, June Jordan, Carol Bly, Gary Soto, Ellen Goodman, Margaret Mead.