This is a forgotten gem of a book.
The family in His Family is an aging father and his three daughters; Dad is having difficulty with the choices they make.
The characters are timeless. One daughter married and had a family, one chooses a career, and one is a proto-flapper, looking for good times with serial husbands. The issues the daughters and their father face -- immigration, racism, traditionalism, morality -- are as relevant today as they were then. When the career daughter chooses to tend to her students from immigrant tenements, the married daughter disparages the immigrants in ways that are echoed in today's debated over border security. The career daughter faces difficult choices about family versus work, and the proto-flapper just wants to have fun.
Dad's business is good for a chuckle -- he runs a readers service that predates Google. The writing is dated, the plot devices are predictable, but the story is a good one.
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