Ebook247 pages3 hours
Origins of the Universe and What It All Means: A Memoir
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
()
About this ebook
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 formsfrom footnotes and diagrams to startling love letters and Saturday morning cartoonsFirstman 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.
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.
Related to Origins of the Universe and What It All Means
Related ebooks
The Haunting of the Mexican Border: A Woman's Journey Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPresentimiento: A Life in Dreams Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Sperm Donor's Daughter: And Other Tales of Modern Family Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHalf-Moon Scar: A Novel Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Nokota® Voices Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEarth in Love: Her World Is About to Change Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMadrugada Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThrough my Eyes. Again. Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Bleeding Gut Blues Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOver the Hill and Far Away: One Grown-Up Gap Year Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMountain Daddy: The Single Dad's New Baby: Mountain Daddy, #1 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tideland Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Love Junkie: Getting High for Daddy Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsScythe of Darkness: Scythe of Darkness, #1 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLove in the Elephant Tent: How Running Away with the Circus Brought Me Home Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Nap-Away Motel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Foundling: The True Story of a Kidnapping, a Family Secret, and My Search for the Real Me Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ordinary Skin: Essays from Willow Springs Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLike Two Mexicans Dancing Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsUnder the Giant Mimosa with the Mango Tree Lover Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Sky Below Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBallistics: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Place Inside the Storm Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPockets: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Window Opens: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Turquoise Trail: A Short Story Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTexas Two-Step: A Dawna Shepherd Short Story: FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd Mysteries, #13 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLaws of Migration Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Queens Over Jacks King High Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSplinter Factory Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Personal Memoirs For You
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Diary of a Young Girl Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dry: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Stolen Life: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Glass Castle: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I'm Glad My Mom Died Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bad Mormon: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mommie Dearest Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: the heartfelt, funny memoir by a New York Times bestselling therapist Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Just Mercy: a story of justice and redemption Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Taste: My Life Through Food Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Yes Please Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mediocre Monk: A Stumbling Search for Answers in a Forest Monastery Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Becoming Sister Wives: The Story of an Unconventional Marriage Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Stash: My Life in Hiding Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Solutions and Other Problems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5My Story Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Whiskey in a Teacup: What Growing Up in the South Taught Me About Life, Love, and Baking Biscuits Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Son of Hamas: A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related categories
Reviews for Origins of the Universe and What It All Means
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
Origins of the Universe and What It All Means - Carole Firstman
OrNa book_preview_excerpt.html }\ݒƙ}T*r;k$K$q 4 h
ʾCn}I${ GVrcqH|?7Ó7?V77'O^qTK~9~<|'?7oM_G_!}+rոt>)%;}6cꃫ~7_WXMvRo*Wvhj'<sm!ۿߪx)vZ|U1ե};~_"EϿov)B?U6\'\|HWfjw 1<ծuq&$_5m7SC\u=eqHnqH~o]v[i{'7HWMN" gu
j:zFjq֡cluqю#`م+҅ߴnƳ|h{pLOíX@{4,5}LvcxG՜"Vkw"6Xkolfڥ=dǑfòa!:@PHdY
=w-T6W53|{ v'ak𢢽S3/9 uqpDƅ]ʀ`suym7Sr:~
pį8R!о$C؏| xՌ`=Z=n^U-%|&E9qNBuN-\|0hjc-ӕ(t!=3XOm.Ǜ7bo>*.M61pOI+o#pW )t.m