Apple, Tree features 25 eloquent essayists who consider a trait they’ve inherited from a parent, exploring how it affects the lives they lead today, how it shifts their relationships, and how it changes their sense of self. Topics include perversion, the paranormal grudges, boredom, dinner, luck, and more. Together, these all-new essays form a prismatic meditation on how we make fresh sense of ourselves and our parents when we see the traces of them that live on in us.
Editor Lise Funderburg and contributor Lauren Grodstein discuss the book, their relationships with their parents, and more at this event.
Lise Funderburg is a writer and editor and a lecturer in creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania and is the author of Pig Candy: Taking My Father South, Taking My Father Home and Black, White, Other: Biracial Americans Talk about Race and Identity. Follow her on Facebook @lise.funderburg.writer and Twitter @LiseFunderburg. Find out more at lisefunderburg.com.
Lauren Grodstein is the author of four novels, including Our Short History and A Friend of the Family. She directs the MFA program at Rutgers-Camden. Follow her on Twitter
@laurengrodstein. Find out more at laurengrodstein.com.
Date & Time
October 16, 2019
7:00 pm-8:00 pm
Location
Writers House
305 Cooper St.
Camden, NJ