Marie Brenner's "Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found" is an unusual memoir about sibling rivalry and family history. It helps that Brenner's family has an amazing cast of characters including a Jewish grandfather who emigrated to Mexico and adopted "Don" as his title, an aunt who consorted with the likes of Freda Kahlo and Diego Rivera, and her brother, who grew apples in Washington state. Marie's struggle to understand her family and, above all, her conservative brother makes for very good reading.
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