| Product Summary | | Format: Hardcover | | ISBN: 9781400062379 | | Publisher: Random House | | Publish Date: 11/15/2005 | | Buy.com Sku: 31216710 | | Item#: R3YM56 | | Dimensions (in Inches) 9.5H x 6.5L x 1T | | Pages: 400 |
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| | | The author of "What Should I Do With My Life?" traveled the world to find extraordinary wisdom from ordinary people who overcame adversity to rebuild family relationships. The text will compel readers to see their families with new vision.
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As he did in his previous WHAT SHOULD I DO WITH MY LIFE, Po Bronson explores the landscape of human experience through well-developed portraits of everyday American families whom he interviewed about their personal struggles. The inspiring subjects in WHY DO I LOVE THESE PEOPLE? include a woman "who never wanted children" but whose tireless efforts to provide the best for her son who has severe ADHD puts her up against the system; or a teen who, despite the "good divorce" of her parents still suffers from depression. What makes these portraits special is that Bronson does not disappear as an objective observer; he engages the subjects, asking probing questions, responding, and commenting. Each sketch addresses a question that Bronson poses at the start, such as "How long should we keep trying with family members who continuously give us pain?" or "Is a child's nature fragile or resilient?" Collectively, Bronson's portraits illustrate what Bronson said about one story: that it is "an example of how a family weathers a crisis."
| PraiseNew York Times Book Review
"[Bronson's] latest...is even more Oprah-friendly than the first....Like [Tom] Wolfe, Bronson puts great stock in reporting; the yarns collected here, most quite touching when left to unfurl by thermselves, were winnowed from an impressive 700 initial interviews." - Alexandra Jacobs 01/15/2006 |
| Author Bio| Po Bronson | Bronson was born in 1964. After studying cultural economics and studio art at Stanford, he held various jobs, working as a fact-checker in a law firm, a bonds salesman, a teacher at San Francisco high schools, and a journalist.
In 1989 he returned to school to earn his MFA from San Francisco State. His experience working in the brokerage led him to pen BOMBARDIERS, a satire about the financial world. After working on stories for Wired, Forbes, and other magazines, Bronson published his second book, FIRST $20 MILLION IS ALWAYS THE HARDEST. Around that time, tales from friends in Silicon Valley began to circulate and Bronson became intrigued. NUDIST ON THE LATE SHIFT, his next book, resulted from hours sitting in on company meetings, interviewing engineers and entrepreneurs, and hearing about a mysterious programmer who worked at night without clothing. He has served on the editorial board of Zoetrope: All-Story magazine and on the board of directors of Consortium, a distributor of independent presses based in St. Paul, Minnesota. |
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