Relative Fiction

What is a family, anyway?

Nicole talks to her dad.

Nicole isn't the only one trying to solve her family's mystery

It turns out, keeping secrets runs in the family...

Nicole finds her dad... sort of.

Nicole looks back at her childhood and tries to figure out when the lie about her dad first started, and why it stuck around as long as it did.

Nicole Georges grew up believing that her father was dead. That’s what her family told her. But a chance visit to a palm reader revealed that they had been lying all along.

Nicole Georges grew up believing that her father was dead. That’s what her family told her, after all. But when she was in her 20s, a palm reader told Georges something different. Turns out, that palm reader was right. Based on the award-winning 2013 graphic memoir "Calling Dr. Laura," this six-episode podcast will take us through Georges’ search for her father, the stories she was told, and the rollercoaster of belief and identity she went through in the process. Because if family is a story we tell ourselves, what happens when those fictions break apart?