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

from bobbieharv

For such an accomplished journalist, she seemed oddly needy with a very difficult personality. Her ADD would have driven me as crazy as it did her brother. And this manifested in the structure of the book, which was all over the place, from her Mexican ancestors (who I didn't have the slightest i...

from lansum

Alfred Uhry (Driving Miss Daisy, Last Night of Ballyhoo) has been commissioned to write a play based on this memoir by Marie Brenner. It's scheduled to premier in Atlanta in October. I'm looking forward to it because I think the play is likely to improve it. There are parts of the memoir that are...

from jbealy

Marie Brenner, who has written exposés of the tobacco industry and the Enron scandal and the best-selling "House of Dreams", uses her journalist/reporter skills to get to the bottom of her troubling relationship with her dying brother. She ties dysfunctional family dynamics, Mexico, politics, art...

from LiteraryFeline

I was three when my brother entered this world. My mother had to be rushed to the hospital, nearly dropping my brother out right there in the hospital parking lot. My father's parents were visiting, my grandmother watching me while my parents were away. I remember my father coming home with a gri...

from NewsieQ

Sad and rambling memoir with very little to recommend it. The author couldn't walk a straight line ... especially when there was something glittery along the way to grab her attention. It's possible readers who like non-linear writing may find it to their liking.