A working blueprint for building the village around yourself, so you are not doing this alone.
Loretta got the call at 11:47 on a Thursday night. Her daughter had overdosed. The grandchildren needed someone now. She was in her car within four minutes. She was sixty-one years old. She had thought that part of her life was complete.
2.7 million grandparent-headed households in the United States alone. Millions more aunts, uncles, neighbors, and chosen kin who got the call and said yes. They are performing the grandmother function under crisis conditions, often without a framework, without a network, and without a single person who understands what their Tuesday looks like.
This book is for them. Not theory. Not policy. A working blueprint for building the village around yourself so you are not doing this alone. The Village Inventory maps who is actually in your network and what they do. The First Ask scripts give you the exact language for the hardest conversation in village building: asking someone specific to do something specific. The Seven Functions reference card names what the village does, on one page.
Each chapter ends with one action. Do it before you read the next chapter. The village does not get built by reading about it. You are not alone in this. This book is proof.
“You are not alone in this. This book is proof.”— from The Grand Matriarchy Village
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