The New Yorker:

The writer recommends four books about the nuances of family life.

Amy Bloom’s latest novel, “I’ll Be Right Here,” tells the story of a single family across more than eight decades. The span of the book renders it, almost by definition, a portrait of how the clan’s members observe one another as the years pass. “With families, everyone is a time traveler,” Bloom writes. “If anyone in the room knew you before you were exactly who you are right now, they still see you as you were, and as you are.” Not long ago, Bloom—severalof whose stories have appeared in the magazine—joined us to discuss a handful of accomplished portraits of family life: its intimacies, its irritations, and the slippery sense of time it can produce. Her remarks have been edited and condensed.

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