Just Like Family

Just Like Family
  • Author: Andrea Laurent-Simpson
  • Publisher: NYU Press
  • ISBN: 9781479828852
  • Category: Family & Relationships
  • Page: 336
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"A first-of-its kind, in-depth investigation into how companion animals and their humans have carved out a new type of family - the multi-species family - in which identities like parent, child, grandparent, and sibling transcend species to create new forms of kinship"--

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