Living with Nephew: How I Got Voted the Meanest Parent in the World - Couverture rigide

Burr, Sherri L.

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ISBN 13 : 9798990424982

Editeur : RMK Publications LLC, 2026

Synopsis

In Living with Nephew, Sherri Burr’s California nephew, Terrance, moved in with her when he was 12 years old, going through puberty, and becoming popular with girls. Sherri humorously attempts to keep him focused on schoolwork--and away from romance—by drafting contracts to manage his behavior. She also weaves in stories about her own seventh-grade year when tragedy struck and forever altered her family.

SHERRI BURR is the Pulitzer-Prize nominated author of Complicated Lives: Free Blacks in Virginia, 1619-1865, the 27th of her more than 30 books. She has earned fellowships to conduct research at both Monticello and Mount Vernon.

Burr is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College, Princeton University, and Yale Law School. In 1994, she became the first African American female to be awarded tenure and promoted to full professor at the University of New Mexico.

Burr started writing this book in 2005, the year after her nephew returned to California, because she missed him. In 2006, an early draft of the manuscript won second place in the SouthWest Writers Annual Contest for Nonfiction Books. After the book was first completed, it received praise from authors Max Evans, Tony Hillerman, and Wally “Famous” Amos. Even though these men have since died, their comments appear on the back cover and in the book along with those of other authors. Burr is grateful to them for the letters and emails they sent confirming permission to use their words of praise in this book.

Comments about "Living With Nephew"

"Sherri Burr is a woman who knows how to shape the dough of life into inspirational morsels. Living with Nephew is a moving, yet humorous, book, about standing up to life's parenting challenges."
-Wally "Famous" Amos, Author of The Cookie Never Crumbles: Inspirational Recipes for Everyday Living

"In Living with Nephew, Sherri Burr leaves out the parts that readers skip."
- Tony Hillerman, Author of The Dark Winds, A Thief of Time, and The Great Taos Bank Robbery

“Oh, what a charmer Sherri Burr’s book is. Can you imagine what happens when the twelve-year-old nephew comes to spend a year with his single Auntie? They both find terror and wisdom—so will the reader. Buy it now. Read it now. Laugh and learn forever.”
- Max Evans, Author of The Hi-Lo Country, The Rounders, Madam Millie, and Faraway Blue

“This book has wonderful energy. When law professor Sherri Burr invites twelve-year-old Nephew to live with her, she transforms both her world and his. Living with Nephew leads the reader on a hilarious and weighty adventure. Sherri and Nephew challenge and educate each other. And in the process, each becomes a better person. You will love this memoir.
“I also send congratulations to Nephew on becoming a minister. I appreciated his kindness and confidence when I saw him at Sherri’s house before her mom passed. He has grown into an impressive young man.”
- Judith S. Avila, NYT bestselling Author of Code Talker: The first and only memoir by one of the original Navajo code talkers of WWII.

“Charming is the right word. I could see this selling to all mothers in “recovery.”
- Dr. Sue Brown

“Wow – a tremendous story. I really liked how the author weaves in stories of her love life. This book is hilarious yet has a bittersweet ending that brought tears to my eyes.”
- Melody Groves, Author of Before Billy the Kid: The Boy Behind the Legendary Outlaw

I was a witness to a devoted auntie’s dedication to her Nephew and his antics. Sherri’s fun stories demonstrate the love and affection both auntie and Nephew have for each other.
- Kathleen A. Hessler, J.D., R.N., Author of Promise Me, Daughter, A Nurse Attorney Navigates Her Mother’s Early-Onset Alzheimer’s

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Sherri Burr is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College, Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs, and the Yale Law School. At the University of New Mexico, she became the Dickason Chair and Regents Professor of Law Emerita in 2017 following her retirement from an approximately 30-year career as a full-time law professor.Burr is the prolific author or co-author of over 30 law, business, and history books. Her "Complicated Lives: Free Blacks in Virginia, 1619-1865" (Carolina Academic Press, 2019) was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in History. Her first memoir, "Living with Nephew: How I Got Voted the Meanest Parent in the World," was published by RMK Publications in 2026.Burr has won numerous awards as an author, lecturer, and television producer. In 2025, she received the Parris Award from Southwest Writers, the organization's highest honor for a published writer who has contributed substantially to the organization and to advance other writers. In 2024, she was selected as the inaugural Black Women United for Action Fellow at the George Washington Presidential Library to work on her next history book. Mount Holyoke College presented to her its Alumni Achievement Award in 2022. In 2021, she was proclaimed the National Federation Communicator of Achievement.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: RMK Publications LLC
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798990424982
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 285
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg