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Apple, tree : writers on their parents / edited and with an introduction by Lise Funderburg.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781496212092
- ISBN: 1496212096
- Physical Description: xiv, 213 pages : illustration, portraits ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2019]
- Copyright: ©2019.
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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 -- 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, etc.: | "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. |
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Author Notes
Apple, Tree : Writers on Their Parents
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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