Overview

Living with Nephew tells the story of a 12-year-old boy from Long Beach, California--home of rappers Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre--moving in with his Yale-educated law professor aunt for a year. It is a double fish-out-of-water story as the aunt adjusts to having a hip-hop generation kid residing in her home and the nephew adapts to a more structured and intellectual environment. As she is raising her nephew, Auntie recalls her own seventh grade year with determination that Nephew's will be far better. This story taps into the growing phenomenon of kinship care in U.S. culture, where children live with relatives other than their parents. For example, U.S. Census Bureau statistics indicate that grandparents, approximately 20% of whom are under the age of 45, head 2.4 million families that include grandchildren. Living with Nephew offers a humorous perspective on kinship care.

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""Sherri Burr is a woman who knows how to shape the dough of life into inspirational morsels. Living with Nephew is a moving, yet humorous, book about standing up to life's parenting challenges."" -- Wally ""Famous"" Amos, Author of The Cookie Never Crumbles; Inspirational Recipes for Everyday Living ""Oh, what a charmer Sherri Burr's book is. Can you imagine what happens when the twelve-year old nephew comes to spend a year with his single Auntie? They both find terror and wisdom-so will the reader. Buy it now. Read it now. Laugh and learn forever."" -- Max Evans, Author of The Hi-Lo Country, The Rounders, Madam Millie, and Faraway Blue ""In Living with Nephew, Sherri Burr leaves out the parts that readers skip."" -- Tony Hillerman, Author of The Dark Winds, A Thief of Time, and The Great Taos Bank Robbery ""Sherri Burr's account of parenting her 12-year-old nephew in his seventh-grade year is by turns hilarious and poignant. There is a lot of wisdom in these pages about life, learning and love. The honesty of both Auntie and Nephew makes this a riveting tale."" -- Dr. Suzanne Geissler Bowles, Author of God and Sea Power ""This book has wonderful energy. When law professor Sherri Burr invites twelve-year-old Nephew to live with her, she transforms both her world and his. Living with Nephew leads the reader on a hilarious and weighty adventure. ... You will love this memoir. -- Judith S. Avila, NYT bestselling Author Code Talker: The first and only memoir by one of the original Navajo code talkers of WWII.""Sherri Burr is a talented storyteller, and her book is incredibly moving. In ""Living with Nephew,"" Sherri captures the complexities of devastating family events, including domestic violence, abandonment, and sexual abuse, in a way that showcases resilience and strength instead of bitterness and defeat."" -- Theresa Mancuso, Occupational Therapist ""Wow - a tremendous story. I really liked how the author weaves in stories of her love life. This book is hilarious yet has a bittersweet ending that brought tears to my eyes."" -- Melody Groves, Author Before Billy the Kid: The Boy Behind the Legendary Outlaw

Author Information

Sherri Burr is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College, Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs, and the Yale Law School. At the University of New Mexico, she became the Dickason Chair and Regents Professor of Law Emerita in 2017 following her retirement from an approximately 30-year career as a full-time law professor.Burr is the prolific author or co-author of over 30 law, business, and history books. Her ""Complicated Lives: Free Blacks in Virginia, 1619-1865"" (Carolina Academic Press, 2019) was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in History. Her first memoir, ""Living with Nephew: How I Got Voted the Meanest Parent in the World,"" was published by RMK Publications in 2026.Burr has won numerous awards as an author, lecturer, and television producer. In 2025, she received the Parris Award from Southwest Writers, the organization's highest honor for a published writer who has contributed substantially to the organization and to advance other writers. In 2024, she was selected as the inaugural Black Women United for Action Fellow at the George Washington Presidential Library to work on her next history book. Mount Holyoke College presented to her its Alumni Achievement Award in 2022. In 2021, she was proclaimed the National Federation Communicator of Achievement.

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