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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Lise FunderburgPublisher: University of Nebraska Press Imprint: University of Nebraska Press ISBN: 9781496212092ISBN 10: 1496212096 Pages: 232 Publication Date: 01 September 2019 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction 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 Acknowledgments ContributorsReviewsApple, 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 World-- (02/25/2019) 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 World -- Andrea Barnet Undoubtedly, parents influence us more deeply and irrevocably than any other people in our lives. The apple, after all, doesn't fall very far from the tree. This topic is given its rich and thoughtful due in Apple, Tree: Writers on Their Parents, an engrossing anthology of 25 delightfully diverse personal essays. -Laurie Hertzel, (Minneapolis) Star Tribune -- Laurie Hertzel * (Minneapolis) Star Tribune * Funderburg, who has explored her own parents and background in her memoir Pig Candy, here gathers pieces from writers about a trait they've inherited from a mother or father. Ann Patchett, Daniel Mendelsohn and Laura van den Berg, among others, meditate on how attributes both physical and spiritual tie us to and distance us from our elders. -Bethanne Patrick, Washington Post -- Bethanne Patrick * Washington Post * 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 * Publishers Weekly * Apple, Tree is a sweet, smart collection, and-it has to be said-a perfect gift for a parent you love. -Lily Meyer, NPR -- Lily Meyer * NPR * 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 World -- Andrea Barnet 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 World -- Andrea Barnet 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 World -- Andrea Barnet Apple, Tree provides a thoughtful meditation on individuals' connections to heritage and legacy. -Elisabeth Woronzoff, Pop Matters -- Elisabeth Woronzoff * Pop Matters * Lise Funderburg has collected diverse stories of parenthood and childhood, of love, loss, and remembrance. Apple, Tree is the perfect collection for anyone who has ever considered what legacies parents leave to their children. -Hannah Straton, Hippocampus Magazine -- Hannah Straton * Hippocampus Magazine * Undoubtedly, parents influence us more deeply and irrevocably than any other people in our lives. The apple, after all, doesn't fall very far from the tree. This topic is given its rich and thoughtful due in Apple, Tree: Writers on Their Parents, an engrossing anthology of 25 delightfully diverse personal essays. -Laurie Hertzel, (Minneapolis) Star Tribune -- Laurie Hertzel * (Minneapolis) Star Tribune * Funderburg, who has explored her own parents and background in her memoir Pig Candy, here gathers pieces from writers about a trait they've inherited from a mother or father. Ann Patchett, Daniel Mendelsohn and Laura van den Berg, among others, meditate on how attributes both physical and spiritual tie us to and distance us from our elders. -Bethanne Patrick, Washington Post -- Bethanne Patrick * Washington Post * 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 * Publishers Weekly * Apple, Tree is a sweet, smart collection, and-it has to be said-a perfect gift for a parent you love. -Lily Meyer, NPR -- Lily Meyer * NPR * Author InformationLise 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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