This book is a "story quilt" of personal narratives constructed from in-depth, case study interviews of five single-parent mothers. Unbroken Homes chronicles their journeys as mothers, daughters, and women, in relationships and in solitude, displaying their stories in their own words like the squares of a multicolored quilt. As a feminist work, Unbroken Homes breaks through the stigma associated with "broken homes," and provides a new perspective on the reorganization of American families. --- from the publisher |