"In addition to the significant contributions this timely work makes to scholarship on the individual authors analyzed therein, this work will also serve as an invaluable resource to anyone interested in literary representations of family alongside feminist, queer, and intersectional theoretical questions pertaining to social class, race, and gender. It will also be applicable to other writers from other cultures who narrate their own experiences of migration."-Adrienne Angelo, Women in French Studies “Frelier steeps us in transnational, transcultural, and transdiasporic family formations with rigor and vulnerability-qualities that together provide a deep immersion in texts and lives. The book takes up ‘family’ not as a vehicle to somewhere else, but as a subject worthy of our attention for its own sake. Reaching across disciplinary chasms, it holds something for every reader seeking to understand families as they are.”-Amy Brainer, author of Queer Kinship and Family Change in Taiwan “An important contribution to French and francophone studies. . . . Given the evolution of family structure and its ever-growing transnational nature, this book is a welcome intervention in our field and beyond. Jocelyn Frelier sheds new light on important works and authors.”-LoÏc Bourdeau, editor of Horrible Mothers: Representations across Francophone North America
