Apple, Tree: Writers on Their Parents by Funderburg, Lise

Apple, Tree: Writers on Their Parents (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781496212092)

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Apple, Tree: Writers on Their Parents by Funderburg, Lise

Apple, Tree: Writers on Their Parents

$24.95
Apple, Tree: Writers on Their Parents by Funderburg, Lise

Apple, Tree: Writers on Their Parents

$24.95
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Lise Funderburg
ISBN-10: 1496212096
ISBN-13: 9781496212092
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2019
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.20h x 8.20w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/22/2019
By Lise Funderburg
By Lise Funderburg
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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.

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