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Origins of the Universe and What It All Means: A Memoir

✍ Scribed by Firstman, Carole

Book ID: 108997495
Publisher: Dzanc Books
Year: 2016
Tongue: English
Weight: 678 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781941088722

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

In her debut memoir, Carole Firstman traces her strained relationship with her eccentric and distant father, a gifted biology professor whose research on scorpions may have contributed to the evolutionary theories of Stephen Jay Gould. Through unexpected forms--from footnotes and diagrams to startling love letters and Saturday morning cartoons--Firstman struggles to reconnect with her estranged father and redefine herself as both a grown woman and a daughter.
Part travel narrative, part cultural commentary, this genre-bending memoir contemplates the nature of parent-child relationships, the evolution of life on Earth, and origins both physical and metaphysical. Excerpts from this work have appeared as Notable Essays in several Best American Essays collections.

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