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Glitter and glue : a memoir [electronic resource] / Kelly Corrigan ; read by Kelly Corrigan.

By: Material type: SoundSoundSeries: Bolinda Digital July 2022Publisher: [New York] : Books on Tape, 2014Content type:
  • spoken word
Media type:
  • audio
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • other
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780385392891
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • B .C677 2014
Online resources: Read by Kelly Corrigan.Summary: When Kelly Corrigan was in high school, her mother neatly summarized the family dynamic as ?Your father?s the glitter but I?m the glue.? This meant nothing to Kelly, who left childhood sure that her mom-with her inviolable commandments and proud stoicism-would be nothing more than background chatter for the rest of Kelly?s life, which she was carefully orienting toward adventure. After college, armed with a backpack, her personal mission statement, and a wad of traveler?s checks, she took off for Australia to see things and do things and Become Interesting. � But it didn?t turn out the way she pictured it. In a matter of months, her savings shot, she had a choice: get a job or go home. That?s how Kelly met John Tanner, a newly widowed father of two looking for a live-in nanny. They chatted for an hour, discussed timing and pay, and a week later, Kelly moved inches And there, in that house in a suburb north of Sydney, 10,000 miles from the house where she was raised, her mother?s voice was suddenly everywhere, nudging and advising, cautioning and directing, escorting her through a terrain as foreign as any she had ever trekked. Every day she spent with the Tanner kids was a day spent reconsidering her relationship with her mother, turning it over in her hands like a shell, straining to hear whatever messages might be trapped in its spiral. � This is a book about the difference between travel and life experience, stepping out and stepping up, fathers and mothers. But mostly it?s about who you admire and why, and how that changes over time.
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When Kelly Corrigan was in high school, her mother neatly summarized the family dynamic as ?Your father?s the glitter but I?m the glue.? This meant nothing to Kelly, who left childhood sure that her mom-with her inviolable commandments and proud stoicism-would be nothing more than background chatter for the rest of Kelly?s life, which she was carefully orienting toward adventure. After college, armed with a backpack, her personal mission statement, and a wad of traveler?s checks, she took off for Australia to see things and do things and Become Interesting. � But it didn?t turn out the way she pictured it. In a matter of months, her savings shot, she had a choice: get a job or go home. That?s how Kelly met John Tanner, a newly widowed father of two looking for a live-in nanny. They chatted for an hour, discussed timing and pay, and a week later, Kelly moved inches And there, in that house in a suburb north of Sydney, 10,000 miles from the house where she was raised, her mother?s voice was suddenly everywhere, nudging and advising, cautioning and directing, escorting her through a terrain as foreign as any she had ever trekked. Every day she spent with the Tanner kids was a day spent reconsidering her relationship with her mother, turning it over in her hands like a shell, straining to hear whatever messages might be trapped in its spiral. � This is a book about the difference between travel and life experience, stepping out and stepping up, fathers and mothers. But mostly it?s about who you admire and why, and how that changes over time.

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Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Duration: 05:38:00.

Read by Kelly Corrigan.

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