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Title Statement | Apple, tree: writers on their parents / edited and with an introduction by Lise Funderburg. |
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Alternative Title(s) | Writers on their parents |
Additional Contributors | Funderburg, Lise |
Publication | Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press,[2019]©2019 |
Extent of Item | xiv, 213 pages |
ISBN | 1496212096 9781496212092 |
Other Number | 3652442 |
General Notes | Essays. |
Contents | Introduction / Lise Funderburg -- Predictions / Laura van den Berg -- Curtains / Sallie Tisdale -- Lies my parents (never but maybe should've) told me / Shukree Hassan Tilghman -- Better angels / Clifford Thompson -- The only light we've got / Angelique Stevens -- Household idols / Avi Steinberg -- Just say the word / Lizzie Skurnick -- All knotted up / Dana Prescott -- Sisters / Ann Patchett -- One man's poison / Kyoko Mori -- Unlived lives / Laura Miller -- A measure of perversity / Marc Mewshaw -- Off, off, off, off, off / Daniel Mendelsohn -- What we keep / Donna Masini -- My story about my mother / Mat Johnson -- Never have just one boss / Susan Ito -- Spending the sparkle / Jane Hamilton -- Around the table / Lauren Grodstein -- This truth about chaos / John Freeman -- No indifferent place / Carolyn Ferrell -- And Niriko makes four / Lolis Eric Elie -- Fragments from the long game / Kate Carroll de Gutes -- Self-made men / Leland Cheuk -- The nut doesn't fall far from the fucking nut tree / S. Bear Bergman -- The feeding gene / Karen Grigsby Bates. |
Summary | "Apple, Tree features a slate of compelling, original essays that eloquently consider a trait they've each inherited from a parent, exploring how it affects the lives they lead today, how it shifts their relationship, and how it changes their sense of self" --Provided by publisher. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Authors, American--Biography |
Self | |
Identity (Psychology)--United States | |
Parenting--Psychological aspects | |
Parent and child--United States | |
Authors, American--Family relationships |