Origins of the universe and what it all means : a memoir / Carole Firstman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Firstman, Carole, 1964- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Firstman, Carole, 1964---Family.

Firstman, Carole.

Firstman, Carole, 1964-.

Authors, American--21st century--Family relationships.

Authors, American.

Fathers and daughters--United States.

Fathers and daughters.

Essayists.

Families.

United States.

Essayists--United States--Biography.

Authors, American--21st century--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

270 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, MI : Dzanc Books, 2016.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Light, time, Earth

Scorpions, snakes

Sitting-up mud

Starry nights

Songbirds

The face of perfection

Presence.

ISBN:

9781938103919

1938103912

OCLC:

961819565

Publisher Number:

99970225462