Published by Viking in 2013, The Family tells the story of the three branches of Laskin's mother's family. At the turn of the last century, the offspring of a pious scribe from the yeshiva town of Volozhin divided into three branches: one branch came to New York and founded two successful businesses (including the successful Maidenform Bra Company, started by Laskin's great aunt Ida Rosenthal), one branch immigrated to what was then Palestine and helped found the cooperative farm of Kfar Vitkin, and all of those who remained behind perished in the Holocaust.
