| 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 |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Authors, American -- Family relationships.
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Parent and child -- United States.
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Parenting -- United States -- Psychological aspects.
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Identity (Psychology) -- United States.
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Self.
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Authors, American -- Biography.
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Essays. |
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Self. |
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Identity (Psychology) |
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Authors, American. |
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Authors, American -- Family relationships. |
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Parent and child. |
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Parenting -- Psychological aspects. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Biography
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Funderburg, Lise, editor.
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| Added Title |
Writers on their parents |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Apple, tree. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2019] 9781496212092 (DLC) 2019005313 (OCoLC)1090001441 |
| ISBN |
1496217233 |
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9781496217233 (electronic bk.) |
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9781496217219 (electronic bk.) |
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1496217217 (electronic bk.) |
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9781496212092 |
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1496212096 |
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9781496217226 (mobi) |
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