In this Family Issue of Hyphen, Adrienne Aguirre profiles different Asian American “families,” from a couple with an adopted white daughter to an Asian American fraternity to newlywed Mormons. Ellen Lee checks in on the rising tide of Asian American parenting blogs and film editor Sylvie Kim investigates whether Asian American families will ever be portrayed with complexity in film. We are proud to publish “Playing the Sheik” by Shivani Manghnani — the winning story of the second co-sponsored Hyphen and Asian American Writers’ Workshop short story contest — which looks at a South Asian family living in Hawaii.