Family

It is a day like any other when seventeen-year-old Melinda Jensen hits the road foráSan Francisco, leaving behind her fractured home life and a constant assault on her self-esteem. Henry is the handsome, charismatic man who comes upon her, collapsed on a park bench, and offers love, a bright new consciousness, and--best of all--a family. Henry’s family, shares everything.áThey share the chores, their bodies, and their beliefs.á And if Mel truly wants to belong, she will share in everything they do.áNo matter what the family does, or how far they go. Told in episodic verse, family is a fictionalized exploration of cult dynamics, loosely based on the Manson Family murders of 1969. It is an unflinching look at people who are born broken, and the lengths they’ll go to make themselves “whole” again.