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Book Two · The Grand Matriarchy series

The Grand Matriarchy Companion

Stories, Conversations, and Some Big Thinkers

Seven people walk into a living room on a Tuesday night.

What if the most important arguments about family, loneliness, and connection happened around a kitchen table?

The idea

The argument happens around a kitchen table

A retired teacher. A Marine. A skeptic. A woman who left her family and came back. A man the dating market forgot. A twenty-three-year-old who grew up without what they are describing.

And a grandmother named Vex, who holds the center of the table by being the reason everyone returns. They disagree honestly. They change their minds in real time. No one smooths it over — and everyone keeps coming back.

You will want to sit at this table.

“The grandmother orca does not hunt. She remembers where the food is. The whole pod follows her.”
— Grandma Vex, in The Companion
A grandparent reading with two small children at home
The books are for the people at the table — read, shared, and passed along.

Vex and the others are already at the table. The chair across from her is yours.

Pull up a chair — read The Companion on Amazon.

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