Family Story

the long version

The lives of the Carlson and Levine families have crisscrossed over the years. The children played together, and even loved together, but in time went their separate ways. Then Annie Levine encounters her brother Eric, now a beggar. She hasn't seen him for ten years, not since he vanished following the kidnapping and possible death of his daughter. Eric's reappearance stirs painful memories but also strives to bring three generations of the families together from across America and Europe. Family Story is truly a novel of family values: the ways in which a family comes into being, matures, and extends to form new bonds. Alison Scott Skelton gives us a rich cast of characters, dramatic - often shocking - turns of plot, and a telling humanity rarely encountered in modern literature.