Family relationships involve both heart and art. From a social occasion half a world away in Poland-- where strangers speaking another language can seem like kith and kin-- to rural Randolph Country, North Carolina-- where strained family ties can turn kin to strangers and the county line into a barrier impossible to cross-- the works in Tampa Review 35 consider both the ties that bind and the points of fracture.

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--Fred Chappell