The Gruens are a Midwestern family in the midst of private dramas.

The first is the vivid power of certain episodes in the four-generation history of this Midwestern American family from North Dakota.

Both were raised in large Midwestern families, both were recent fathers and both possess an evident outward masculinity that is balanced by a sensitive side.

The film tells a story in the life of a Midwestern family, the Reimullers.

Centered around several close-knit Midwestern families, the cast was known as the "melting pot," a wide-ranging group of immigrants.

Sipple's Midwestern family, who were unaware of his sexual orientation, would disown him.

That novel told the story of four generations of a Midwestern Catholic family named Neumiller.

Growing up in what he called "a Midwestern middle-class Jewish family," Steve Goodman began playing the guitar as a teenager.

Meyer grew up in St. Louis, the well-traveled child of Eurocentric parents from prominent Midwestern families.

And there is more trouble at the end of the line, when wealthy Midwestern families will inspect the new arrivals.