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Title Apple, tree : writers on their parents / edited and with an introduction by Lise Funderburg
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 213 pages) : illustrations
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
Notes Print version record
Subject Authors, American -- Family relationships
Parent and child -- United States
Parenting -- United States -- Psychological aspects
Identity (Psychology) -- United States
Self.
Authors, American -- Biography
Ego
LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Essays.
Self
Identity (Psychology)
Authors, American
Authors, American -- Family relationships
Parent and child
Parenting -- Psychological aspects
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Funderburg, Lise, editor.
ISBN 1496217233
9781496217233
9781496217219
1496217217
Other Titles Writers on their parents