Apple, Tree: Writers on Their Parents by Lise Funderburg

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/415048 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Apple, Tree: Writers on Their Parents Author: Lise Funderburg Narrator: Steven Jay Cohen, Kyla Garcia, Dara Rosenberg, Kevin Kenerly, Elisabeth Rodgers, Feodor Chin, Janet Song, Bronson Pinchot, Robin Miles Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 27 minutes Release date: September 24, 2019 Genres: Comedy Publisher's Summary: It happens to us all: we think we’ve settled into an identity, a self, and then out of nowhere and with great force, the traces of our parents appear to us, in us—in mirrors, in gestures, in reaction and reactivity, at weddings and funerals, and in troubled thoughts that crouch in dark corners of our minds. 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.