Apple, Tree
eBook - ePub

Apple, Tree

Writers on Their Parents

  1. 232 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Apple, Tree

Writers on Their Parents

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Frontispiece
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Introduction
  9. Predictions
  10. Curtains
  11. Lies My Parents (Never but Maybe Should’ve) Told Me
  12. Better Angels
  13. The Only Light We’ve Got
  14. Household Idols
  15. Just Say the Word
  16. All Knotted Up
  17. Sisters
  18. One Man’s Poison
  19. Unlived Lives
  20. A Measure of Perversity
  21. Off, Off, Off, Off, Off
  22. What We Keep
  23. My Story about My Mother
  24. Never Have Just One Boss
  25. Spending the Sparkle
  26. Around the Table
  27. This Truth about Chaos
  28. No Indifferent Place
  29. And Niriko Makes Four
  30. Fragments from the Long Game
  31. Self-Made Men
  32. The Nut Doesn’t Fall Far from the Fucking Nut Tree
  33. The Feeding Gene
  34. Acknowledgments
  35. Contributors
  36. About Lise Funderburg