Gathered around it is a splintered family.

Here the Seventh Regiment Armory is a splendid crumble, packed with treasures, inhabited by the homeless and presided over by a splintered family of feuding heirs.

At the school, Mr. Hodge worked through some of the issues he had had with his splintered family.

Mr. Tahari, who recalls his orphanage upbringing in Israel as an improvement over life with his splintered family in a one-room Jerusalem ghetto, spoils himself when it comes to his surroundings.

These interconnected short stories are narrated by a young girl in a splintered working-class Canadian family.

Powell's not always happy relationships with her splintered family, as well as the curious marriage to her agent and major domo (nicknamed Sunny) are smoothed over and dismissed with a have-a-nice-day smile.

Mariam Kromah, 60, is one Liberian who is returning, with members of her splintered family.

Rather, weighing more heavily on Mr. Fernandez are such private issues as his splintered family.

The children, who are high school age, come from all over the country and abroad and arrive with records of drug and alcohol use, tangles with the law, truancy, domestic violence and splintered families.

The interplanetary mischief has some profound but hidden effects on the domestic life of this splintered family.