Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found (Paperback)

by Marie Brenner (Author)

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Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Picador; 1st edition edition (April 27 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0312428804
ISBN-13: 978-0312428808
Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 14 x 2.3 cm
Shipping Weight: 273 g
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Perplexing was the family euphemism for Brenner's older brother Carl; the less tactful thought him unknowable, charm-free or plain weird. At 13, in San Antonio, Tex., where his father owned a discount store, Carl joined the John Birch Society. At 40, he left his career as a trial lawyer to become an apple farmer in Washington's Cascade Mountains. Brenner (House of Dreams) and he were on barely civil terms, but when he was 55, he was diagnosed with adenocarcinoma, glandular cancer, and asked Marie for help. She responded, leaving her family in New York to be with Carl, who rejected conventional treatment, and to follow him as far away as China for scorpion patches, herbs and red meat for yang deficit. The cancer spread quickly; meanwhile, Marie sought to investigate her family's present and past among her father's feuding siblings, including writer Anita Brenner (who became part of Mexico City's art scene that included Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo). And with this research, Brenner courageously and affectingly plumbs the depths of often complex family and sibling relationships. (May 20)
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"Grabs the problem of sibling rivalry by the throat . . . exposing the sweetness at the core of an embattled love."--O, The Oprah Magazine

"Deftly traces three generations of a combustible, fascinating family."--The Miami Herald

"In this elegiac memoir, the author, a reporter, applies the same investigative skills that led to her exposé of the tobacco industry and Enron to a more intimate subject: her contentious relationship with her late brother. . . . At once comic and tinged with regret."--The New Yorker

"If Marie Brenner and her brother, Carl, can learn to love each other, there might be hope for our divided America after all. . . . Brenner reminds us that it's more productive to eat apples than to throw them."--Entertainment Weekly

"An acid-laced tale of family love."--USA Today

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