false 2889081 2 What is more complicated than the relations between brother and sister? To discover a brother she hardly knew, Marie Brenner, bestselling author and renowned reporter, leaves behind her life in New York City to reconnect with her ailing sibling. Reconnect is not really the right word, however, because the two have never been compatible. Marie&#8217;s brother Carl&#8212;yin to her yang, red state to her blue state&#8212;lives in Texas and the apple country of Washington State, spending his time cultivating his apple orchards, attending church, and paying NRA dues. Meanwhile, Marie has had a successful career among the &#8220;self-important lefties&#8221; her brother loathes. In her attempt to care for Carl, the journalist instead finds that health problems can hardly slow down her alpha male brother. The unspoken grudges, the long-harbored frustrations, all of it bubbles up as her brother remains determined to live. </div><br><br><br><br><div>In her exposés of Big Tobacco and the Enron scandal, Brenner unveiled the secret networks and simmering malevolence behind the corporate façade. Now the reporter trains her incisive eye on the complexities of family dynamics. </div><br><br><br><br><div>In the end, <i>Apples and Oranges </i>is a book about reconciliation. Forced to face the faults and follies of their relationship, Brenner learns to speak her brother&#8217;s language, and eventually the two are able to break down some of the walls. <i>Apples and Oranges </i>is a fearless look at families and what makes them stick together&#8212; for better or for worse. </div></div> 2915334 book 13 5 2008 Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found total:145|5:5|4:32|3:56|2:37|1:15| 145 410 397 56 3 2 false false Tue Jul 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 22 14:53:11 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 24 05:10:11 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Dec 07 19:12:46 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 10 06:57:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false false Fri Jul 11 06:22:34 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 08 09:50:28 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 11 06:22:34 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 true false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 05:28:12 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 05:28:12 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:58:58 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:58:58 -0800 2009 Critics generally adored Apples and Oranges. While they all noted how easily a memoir of this kind could have slipped into overly sentimental eulogizing, they gave Brenner credit for openly and honestly detailing both Carl's difficult personality and her own messy, often misguided attempts to figure...

more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jun 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 14 16:04:02 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 21 14:37:40 -0700 2009 The author is trying to come to terms with the vast differences between her and her brothers personalities, the reasons why they are so different and trying to reach the point where they can peacefully co-exist...more...]]> 1 0 false false Sun Jan 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 15 16:45:30 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 22 17:54:09 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false false Wed Jul 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 11 05:59:01 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 16 15:16:32 -0700 2008 2 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 07:52:10 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 07:57:34 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Apr 03 17:29:21 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 03 17:32:18 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Nov 15 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 15 05:32:22 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 15 05:37:48 -0800 2008
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It's been getting some awesome reviews, so I came at it w/ pretty high hopes. Happily, A's & O's lived up to--even exceeded--all this hype.

Brenner is a professional journalist. So her prose can be powerfully clear, succinct, concise. But what's especially ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 23 14:00:12 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 23 14:11:39 -0700 2008 Times review and an interest in sibling relationships. I
appreciated Marie Brenner's honesty in describing a less than successful relationship and her own contribution to
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This book is as good an account of sibling relationships as I've ever read. As an oldest child, it was very illuminating to read such an eloquent outline of family dynamics from the perspective of a younger child...more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Oct 12 08:22:51 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 08:26:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jul 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue May 20 14:26:34 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 21 11:18:11 -0700 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2889081