Description:
Thicker than Water by Lauren Weindling is a compelling exploration of how families are formed, tested, and redefined. Through intimate storytelling and emotionally resonant moments, the book examines the ties that bind people together--by blood, choice, and shared experience. As relationships strain and evolve, Thicker than Water asks what it truly means to belong and how loyalty, memory, and care shape personal identity. Thoughtful and incisive, this work offers a nuanced portrait of connection, loss, and the enduring power of human bonds.
Review Quotes:
"While tightly focused on the enjoyably gruesome imagery of blood as it appears in Renaissance texts, Weindling's study encompasses significantly larger cultural, political, and philosophical discussions, offering valuable insight into both the period and its literature. Weindling's fascinating international scope presents major English dramatists in a wider European context, offering fresh perspectives, and making significant contribution to the medical humanities field. A wonderfully rich, generous, and stimulating study, gaining real interpretive rewards from its gory focus."--Eric Langley, author of Shakespeare's Contagious Sympathies
"Thicker Than Water pointedly articulates new understandings of ancestry, affinity, and ideas of domestic hegemony that arose for early modern Europeans through thinking about bloodlines."--Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme