Apple, Tree
Writers on Their Parents
1st Edition
Published on 1. September 2019
232 pages
978-1-4962-1723-3 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
"These essays, in addition to being resonant in their own right, will also move readers to recollect stories of their own parents."-Publishers Weekly, starred review "Apple, Tree is an unflinching exploration of the complicated geography of families. At once heartfelt and searching, these affecting stories remind us that parental likenesses once shunned can surprise, move, and reconnect us in unexpected ways."-Andrea Barnet, author of Visionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our WorldMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Lincoln
United States
Illustrations
2 photographs
File size
7,60 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4962-1723-3 (9781496217233)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
09/2019
University of Nebraska Press
€23.50
Available immediately
Person
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.
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.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Predictions
- Curtains
- Lies My Parents (Never but Maybe Should've) Told Me
- Better Angels
- The Only Light We've Got
- Household Idols
- Just Say the Word
- All Knotted Up
- Sisters
- One Man's Poison
- Unlived Lives
- A Measure of Perversity
- Off, Off, Off, Off, Off
- What We Keep
- My Story about My Mother
- Never Have Just One Boss
- Spending the Sparkle
- Around the Table
- This Truth about Chaos
- No Indifferent Place
- And Niriko Makes Four
- Fragments from the Long Game
- Self-Made Men
- The Nut Doesn't Fall Far from the Fucking Nut Tree
- The Feeding Gene
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
