Apple, Tree: Writers on Their Parents - Hardcover
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:University of Nebraska PressISBN-13:9781496212092ISBN-10:1496212096UPC:9781496212092Book Category:Literary Collections, Humor, Family & RelationshipsBook Subcategory:Essays, FormBook Topic:EssaysSize:9.20 x 8.20 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.1Product ID:SCE5MNQ97E
In this masterful collection of new essays, the apple looks at the tree. Twenty-five writers deftly explore a trait they've inherited from a parent, reflecting on how it affects the lives they lead today--how it shifts their relationship to that parent (sometimes posthumously) and to their sense of self.
Apple, Tree's all-star lineup of writers brings eloquence, integrity, and humor to topics such as arrogance, obsession, psychics, grudges, table manners, luck, and laundry. Contributors include Laura van den Berg, S. Bear Bergman, John Freeman, Jane Hamilton, Mat Johnson, Daniel Mendelsohn, Kyoko Mori, Ann Patchett, and Sallie Tisdale, among others. Together, their pieces form a prismatic meditation on how we make fresh sense of ourselves and our parents when we see the pieces of them that live on in us.Languages:EnglishPublisher:University of Nebraska PressISBN-13:9781496212092ISBN-10:1496212096UPC:9781496212092Book Category:Literary Collections, Humor, Family & RelationshipsBook Subcategory:Essays, FormBook Topic:EssaysSize:9.20 x 8.20 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.1Product ID:SCE5MNQ97E
Lise Funderburg is a writer and editor and a lecturer in creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania. Funderburg's collection of oral histories, Black, White, Other: Biracial Americans Talk about Race and Identity, has become a core text in the study of American multiracial identity in college courses around the world. Her latest book is Pig Candy: Taking My Father South, Taking My Father Home. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, National Geographic, Salon and the Nation. Complete list of contributors: Karen Grigsby Bates, S. Bear Bergman, Kate Carroll de Gutes, Leland Cheuk, Lolis Eric Elie, Carolyn Ferrell, John Freeman, Lauren Grodstein, Jane Hamilton, Susan Ito, Mat Johnson, Donna Masini, Daniel Mendelsohn, Marc Mewshaw, Laura Miller, Kyoko Mori, Ann Patchett, Dana Prescott, Lizzie Skurnick, Avi Steinberg, Angelique Stevens, Clifford Thompson, Shukree Hassan Tilghman, Sallie Tisdale, and Laura van den Berg.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
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