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Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found
enlarge	Author: Marie Brenner Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Category: Book List Price: ~~$24.00~~ Buy Used: $12.57 You Save: $11.43 (48%) New (37) Used (15) from $12.57 Media: Hardcover Edition: 1 Number Of Items: 1 Pages: 288 Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3 Dimensions (in): 7 x 5 x 1.2 ISBN: 0374173524 Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780374173524 ASIN: 0374173524 Publication Date: May 13, 2008 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

Editorial Reviews: Product Description DIVPTo be sure, some brothers and sisters have relationships that are easy. But oh, some relationships can be fraught. Confusing, too: How can two people share the same parents and turn out to be entirely different?/PPMarie Brenner#8217;s brother, Carl#8212;yin to her yang, red state to her blue state#8212;lived in Texas and in the apple country of Washington state, cultivating his orchards, polishing his guns, and (no doubt causing their grandfather Isidor to turn in his grave) attending church, while Marie, a world-class journalist and bestselling author, led a sophisticated life among the #8220;New York libs#8221; her brother loathed. /PPFrom their earliest days there was a gulf between them, well documented in testy letters and telling photos: #8220;I am a textbook younger child . . . training as bete noir to my brother,#8221; Brenner writes. #8220;He#8217;s barely six years old and has already developed the Carl Look. It#8217;s the expression that the rabbit gets in IWatership Down /Iwhen it goes Itharn/I, freezes in the light.#8221;/PPAfter many years apart, a medical crisis pushed them back into each other#8217;s lives. Marie temporarily abandoned her job at IVanity Fair /Imagazine, her friends, and her husband to try to help her brother. Except that Carl fought her every step of the way. #8220;I told you to stay away from the apple country,#8221; he barked when she showed up. And, #8220;Don#8217;t tell anyone out here you#8217;re from New York City. They#8217;ll get the wrong idea.#8221;/PPAs usual, Marie#8212;a reporter who has exposed big Tobacco scandals and Enron#8212;irritated her brother and ignored his orders. She trained her formidable investigative skills on finding treatments to help her brother medically. And she dug into the past of the brilliant and contentious Brenner family, seeking in that complicated story a cure, too, for what ailed her relationship with Carl. If only they could find common ground, she reasoned, all would be well./PPBrothers and sisters, IApples and Oranges/I. Marie Brenner has written an extraordinary memoir#8212;one that is heartbreakingly honest, funny and true. It#8217;s a book that even her brother could love./P/DIV

Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews... A Palpable Irony December 28, 2008 An interesting and well-written memoir, unsentimental and incisive.br /br /the only thing that really bothered me about this book is that author clearly violated her brother's privacy. he explicitly destroyed all paperwork relating to his life, probably knowing that she would exploit his story, or explore it, for her own purposes. A good study of a personal journey to her brother's death December 11, 2008 1 out of 1 found this review helpful Bumpy in spots and not always simple to follow, however it is a very good book, with real feeling and meaning for others. I hesitate to be critical, because it is obvious she is a fine writer. This was just so clearly painful, it almost seems to me it needed a few years more to sit and "cool" in her mind. Perhaps presumptuous of me, however I would love to hear her speak of it now with a bit of distance. A worthy read. Got a sibling? August 4, 2008 What a remarkable read. Families are always complicated and sometimes wonderousbr /and Marie Brenner has seen it, felt it and shares it all. I can't wait to get into bed each nightbr /to treat myself to a few more chapters. br /br /I'll hate to see the last page coming. A Classic Memoir July 7, 2008 0 out of 1 found this review helpful Written with heart, wit, and honesty, Apples and Oranges explores the complexities, absurdities, and hidden bonds of a difficult sibling relationship. Brenner dives into dark waters and comes up glistening with a special truth. It made me laugh and cry. fragmented fake memoir June 30, 2008 6 out of 16 found this review helpful Marie Brenner tells us right away in her author's note that she is untrustworthy, with her comment that "conversations, events and dialogue have been reconstructed." Reconstructed events? Come on. Not only that, but she doesn't seem to care about accuracy even to the geography of the area of Central Washington she's describing, such as calling the Wenatchee River the Columbia. Maybe this could be excused if she told a good story (and it was marketed as fiction) but she tries to cover her lack of a true story by fragmenting the chronology, dating some chapters, leaving others without dates, and jumbling the whole mess. There is a lack of insight or attempt to draw the reader closer to either of the characters. By the end, you can see why her brother was so annoyed with her.

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