cover image Cousins

Cousins

Johanna Garfield. Plume Books, $10.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-1-55611-271-3

Interviews with families reveal that cousinhood can result in close-knit clans with shared traits, experiences of rivalry, the discovery of role models and, although it is a cultural and genetic taboo, intermarriage. ``An entertaining study,'' said PW. ``Clearly an enthusiast, Garfield appends guidelines toward the cultivation of happy relationships with kin.'' (Oct.)