STANCHION'S FIRST NOVEL!
 
From François Bereaud, the acclaimed writer of San Diego Stories, comes a novel told in stories that span eras. Meet Walter, Claire, Grace, and Michael, a family in some state of dissolution. This is a story of family, of heartbreak and grace. You'll meet a wife who loses her family, a husband who loses time, their son lost in plays, and their daughter who has lost herself completely, as well as other people whose presence and absence shape who the members of this family are and will become. A Question of Family examines what it means to be alive together.
 
Publication date: Feb 3, 2026
254 pages.
ISBN: 979-8-89692-796-9
 
PRAISE FOR A QUESTION OF FAMILY
“Stellar work from a master storyteller.”
- Sumitra Singam, author of Mother Karma
“A wise, tender, warm-hearted book.”
- Itoro Bassey, author of Ajebutter Women
 
“A Question of Family asks what it means to be a mother, father, brother, and sister as thenovel’s central household and its members grow and reinvent themselves, for better or worse, tofind connection. Asks us to define the shape of family, whether it’s through blood or a quilt offriendships, of outsiders, a patched-together wholeness. Through a mosaic of styles, FrançoisBeraud’s funny and heartfelt prose shows how we lean and depend on each other to survive.”
- Will Musgrove, author of Asphalt Dreaming
 
"When looking up at the night sky, we easily forget that each tiny star light-years away is potentially another sun, with planets and moons in motion around it. A Question of Family turns that gaze inward to remind us of the invisible orbits that draw us all together. In his debut novel, François Bereaud charts a luminous constellation of heartbreak and grace--a wife who loses her family, a husband who loses time, their son lost in plays, their daughter who has lost herself completely, as well as the people whose presence and absence shape who they are and will become--and reveals the asterism of family and what it means to be alive together."
 - Jonathan Danielson, The Lowest Basin: Arizona Stories