Paul Scheer is an award-winning actor, screenwriter, comedian and podcast host of How Did This Get Made? So you'd think his most interesting life stories would be about his audition for Saturday Night Live or how he came up through improv comedy to star in shows like The League and Black Monday.

Those are interesting stories, but in his new memoir, Paul gives center stage to family stories. Growing up with a loving mom and dad who divorced, the tyranny of an abusive stepfather, and what it's like to become a marriage partner and a parent in the shadow of traumatic experiences. 

Tara Boyce says parenting with hope is more complicated than she anticipated.

Ross Gay says joy is something like what we feel like when we help each other carry our sorrows.

An immigrant falls back in love with her culture and yearns to pass it along to her children.