Apples and Oranges
Marie Brenner writes in her new memoir Apples and Oranges, “It is the tone I know well, hate and love, rage and need, all scrambled together.” A sister’s desire to understand her older brother takes her out of the city and into Washington State, better known as apple country. Coming from a journalistic background the book reads like Brenner is in a hurry, chapters are short, sentences even shorter, facts are thrown on to the pages in a flurry. The story itself is intriguing especially for those of us who have siblings, even more so with those that have a difficult relationship with their siblings. Apples and Oranges never fully grasped my attention but did continue to entertain and intrigue which made me return to the book until the end.
