<div>95 million adults have a step relationship, according to a 2011 report. That’s 95 million unexpected experiences; 95 million unique perspectives; 95 million laughs, 95 million tears, and 95 million new families.<br><br><i>Blended</i> explores stepfamilies from the inside out through the perspectives of thirty writers who know what it’s like first hand. Sometimes funny, often poignant, and always deeply personal, the stories in<i>Blended</i> capture the essence of stepfamilies in all of their weird and wonderful varieties. The journeys range from the first encounters between new step-relatives, to marriages, honeymoons, daily experiences, and divorces. The diverse voices in<i>Blended</i> reflect the realities of today’s world, in which yesterday’s ideas of family structures and types just don’t cut it anymore. Parents, children, siblings, aunts, uncles, grandparents, cousins: all of these relationships change when families are melded into one, and the writers of <i>Blended</i> help explore the truth of what these new relationships look like, and, especially,<i>feel</i> like. <i>Blended</i> offers something for everyone: laughter, wisdom, empathy, and guidance, and, above all, the knowledge that you are not alone.<br></div>