Kin Deep

Three works of nonfiction delve into disparate family dynamics.

V.F.writer-at-large James Reginato'sGrowing Up Getty, from Gallery Books, romps through four generations of America's answer to a royal family, from the spendthrift billionaire oil baron J. Paul Getty to his adult great-grandchildren; some glory, much glitz.

In Ingrid Rojas Contreras's lyrical memoir, The Man WhoCould Move Clouds(Doubleday), the author explores her own bout of amnesia alongside her mother's decades earlier and traces her childhood in Colombia against the country's history of colonization.

"I swear that I will never do this for anyone else," Chrysta Bilton's father told her mother, handing over genetic material so she could inseminate herself via turkey baster. A few decades later, The NewYork Timesreported that he'd fathered dozens of kids, perhaps more. InNormal Family (Little, Brown), Bilton recounts the eventual discovery of her 35 siblings.

Keziah Weir

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