Abby Stein’s youngest sister got married last month, the last of 13 kids in their family.

Megan Tan never felt close to her father. For years they’ve been distant.

Ira talks to author Etgar Keret about his mom, and the stories she used to tell him when she put him to sleep.  He explains why it's always been so hard to write about her.

Ira Glass introduces Nancy Updike, one of This American Life's founding producers.

Comedian Zarna Garg tells jokes onstage about the extreme ways she tries to control her daughter Zoya’s life.

Chris Benderev speaks with writer Georgie Codd, who went searching for someone to be the father she never had.

For more than a decade, Boris Furman has meticulously tracked the whereabouts of his family members, averaging the latitude and longitudes to arrive at “The Family Average Location.” But nobody really knows why.

Brian and Peg disagree over a very important thing. Host Ira Glass tries to figure out who’s right.

Amy D'Addario had ferried her mother to the hospital dozens of times before.

Writer Kiese Laymon tells Elna Baker his most embarrassing story, involving one of the most important people in his life. Kiese Laymon is the author of Heavy and Long Division.

Producer Aviva DeKornfeld was interested in the toll that having a wakeup-moment could have on a family, and she heard about someone who had a moment like that over a decade ago. He tried to pull his family into activism too, and what unfolded was the most extreme example of things going badly in a family that Aviva heard of.

In families with sisters, every sister has their role to play. And whatever your role is, it sort of becomes your identity: the sweet one, the diva, the rebel.

Dee Brown’s routine is thrown totally out of whack when Covid hits.

The discovery of 30 century-old postcards written in old Yiddish by a distant family member challenges David Kestenbaum’s ideas about the unimportance of blood ties.

Ten years ago Jonathan Menjivar was on the cusp of something big: the birth of his daughter.

Being an identical twin is kind of like having a parallel world right on top of ours, one in which there is another version of you running around. Dana Chivvis has the story of the Sklar twins, and a 48-year-old mystery.

Ira remembers the contentious family gatherings of holidays past - and how things have changed.

Producer Lina Misitzis travels to Greece with her family to exhume the bones of her dead grandmother. (20 minutes)

A teenage girl decides the only way forward is to tear something down and rebuild from the ground up. Elna Baker explains.