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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793640303321

Titolo

Apple, Tree : Writers on Their Parents / / edited and with an introduction by Lise Funderburg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2019

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2019

©2019

ISBN

1-4962-1721-7

1-4962-1723-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (230 pages)

Disciplina

814/.0093564

Soggetti

Authors, American

Self

Identity (Psychology) - United States

Parenting - Psychological aspects - United States

Parent and child - United States

Authors, American - Family relationships

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"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." --