A technical note: on quotes, block quotes, and translations
Prelude: On the origins of this project, or literary criticism as feminist, autoethnographic work
Introduction: Trans-Forming family: queer kinship and migration in French, Moroccan, and Algerian literature of the twenty-first century
Interlude 1: On maternity, motherhood, and mothering
Mothering beyond borders: transnational queer mother and child in Nina Bouraoui's Garçon manqué (2000)
Queering motherhood: bad mothers and murderous nannies in Leïla Slimani's Chanson douce (2016)
Interlude 2: On paternity, fatherhood, and fathering
Estranged from the father: estrangement-bonds and the terrorist son in Leïla Sebbar's Mon cher fils (2009)
Beginning again: transcultural contact and fatherhood in Azouz Begag's Salam Ouessant (2012)
Interlude 3: On horizontal familial bonds and community
Adoption: choosing family and coming-of-age in Fouad Laroui's Une année chez les Français (2010)
Brotherhood: emancipatory fraternal bonds in Abdellah Taïa's Celui qui est digne d'être aimé (2017)
Postlude: On hindsight and finales.