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| New selections are marked with an | |
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| Thematic Contents | |
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| Rhetorical Contents | |
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| Preface | |
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| The Reader ? | |
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| Getting the Most from Your Reading | |
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| Active Reading | |
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| Thanksgiving Ellen Goodman | |
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| At Thanksgiving, we realize that we are "a part of and apart from" our families-"raised in families...to be individuals." | |
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| Discussion of Active Reading | |
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| Active Reading as Prewriting | |
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| Practicing Active Reading | |
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| Between Generations | |
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| My Son, My Compass Janna Malamud Smith? | |
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| A son questions his family's diet, expounding on the "inhumanity of mass meat consumption" until he finally convinces his parents of the "ethical, practical, and ecological issues" involved in eating red meat | |
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| The Long Way Home | |
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| The "stench" of asafetida and the sounds of pulverizing | |
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| Ginger root and garlic woke the author when she was a child | |
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| But it was many years before her mother would relinquish the kitchen and her secret recipes | |
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| So her daughter could create her own Indian dinners | |
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| The Good Daughter | |
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| Immigrant parents make many sacrifices for their daughter | |
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| Is she then "indentured" to her parents, forced to "straddle two cultures"? | |
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| A son convinces his parents of the "ethical, practical, and ecological issues" | |
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| My Grandfather and the Bomb Jennet Conan? | |
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| The grand daughter of a scientist who helped create the atomic | |
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| Bomb-"the most diabolical weapon in the history of mankind"-mourns her grandfather's | |
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| Role in the devastation at Hiroshima and Nagasaki Devastation | |
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| That he never intended but that his family can never escape | |
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| Breaking Tradition Janice Mirikitan? | |
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| Having discovered "the lies my mother told me," | |
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| The narrator longs to communicate more openly with her daughter whose | |
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| "secretive eyes are walls of smoke / and music and telephones.rdquo? | |
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| The Only Child | |
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| "Speed kills slowly, and he fiddled too much with the oxygen flow to his brain," says the author of his drug-addicted brother | |
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| Are Families Dangerous? | |
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| Barbara Ehrenreich? | |
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| While the family can teach "the finest things human beings can learn from one another," | |
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| Too often the family teaches "nasty things like hate and rage and shame."? | |
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| Ignorance Is Not Bliss Eric Marcus? | |
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| The author's family is afraid that revealing his homosexuality will "kill" his grandmother | |
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| But in the end, the truth brings them closer | |
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| Blue Spruce | |
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| When the town manicurist was pregnant with his child, the barber "bundled her out of town." H | |