Darlin Neal's edited a fine feathered edition of Mississippi Review under the heading of "The Hyperextended Family."

From her Introduction: "If the writers here have redefined family they have done so by defining it as being full of secret passages, as being without boundaries, as stretching from critically ill children in Africa to birds nursed back to life and flying away to brilliant teachers leaving indelible impressions to little girls playing Barbie and longing for home to chickens guarding hippie communes and leaning in for a whiff."