I think of them everyday. All sixteen of them.
My enormous family. My ailing father.
In the midst of a trip to France and Italy and an opportunity of a lifetime — with daily news via email from my siblings — “he’s going to die” “he’s better!” “he’s had a setback” —I struggle to decide: Should I cut my trip short to be present for my father’s final moments?
Or follow our destiny to fulfill the invitation to exhibit at the 2006 Olympic Winter Games in Italy— and hope he lives through the night?
On trains, buses, planes and taxis, memory and meaning bring present and past together. When everyone you loved was alive.
A THEORY OF EXPANDED LOVE is the fictionalized story of an enormous family of Catholics in Pasadena, in 1963. Here are some early reviews: of this popular book
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