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Title Apple, tree : writers on their parents / edited and with an introduction by Lise Funderburg.

Publication Info. [Ashland, Oregon] : Blackstone Publishing, [2019]

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Location Call No. Status
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  CDBK 814 APPLE    Check Shelf
Edition Unabridged.
Description 7 audio discs (8 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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CD audio
Note Compact discs.
Performer Read by Robin Miles, Elisabeth Rodgers, Kevin Kenerly, Kyla Garcia, Steven Jay Cohen, Dara Rosenberg, Janet Song, Bronson Pinchot, and Feodor Chin.
Summary Twenty-five writers explore a trait inherited from a parent, reflecting on how it affects their lives--how it shifts their relationship to that parent (sometimes posthumously) and to their sense of self.
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 -- 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.
Subject Authors, American -- Family relationships.
Authors, American -- Biography.
Identity (Psychology) -- United States.
Parenting -- United States -- Psychological aspects.
Parent and child -- United States.
Self.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays.
HUMOR / Form / Essays.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / General.
Authors, American. (OCoLC)fst00821764
Authors, American -- Family relationships. (OCoLC)fst00821776
Identity (Psychology) (OCoLC)fst00966892
Parent and child. (OCoLC)fst01053308
Parenting -- Psychological aspects. (OCoLC)fst01053419
Self. (OCoLC)fst01111441
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Audiobooks. (OCoLC)fst01726208
Essays. (OCoLC)fst01919922
Audiobooks.
Essays.
Added Author Funderburg, Lise, editor, writer of introduction.
Miles, Robin, narrator.
Rodgers, Elisabeth S., narrator.
Kenerly, Kevin, narrator.
Garcia, Kyla, narrator.
Cohen, Steven Jay, narrator.
Rosenberg, Dara, narrator.
Song, Janet, narrator.
Pinchot, Bronson, narrator.
Chin, Feodor, narrator.
Added Title Writers on their parents
ISBN 9781094082103 (sound recording ; Blackstone Library CD)
1094082104 (sound recording ; Blackstone Library CD)
9781094082110 (sound recording ; Blackstone Retail CD)
1094082112 (sound recording ; Blackstone Retail CD)
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